Paracelsianism (also Paracelsism; German: Paracelsismus) was an early modern medical movement based on the theories and therapies of Paracelsus. It developed...
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beings associated with alchemical elements vary by source and gloss. The Paracelsian concept of elementals draws from several much older traditions in mythology...
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Representation of consciousness from the 17th century by Robert Fludd, an English Paracelsian physician...
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"wild" to describe gaseous emissions, which may be connected to the Paracelsian usage. Thorpe's Northern Mythology connects the adjective sylvestres...
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Adam von Bodenstein (category Paracelsians)
Adam von Bodenstein (1528–1577) was a Swiss Paracelsian alchemist and physician. He was born in Kemberg near Wittenberg in Germany and died of the plague...
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Robert Fludd (category Paracelsians)
Fluctibus (17 January 1574 – 8 September 1637), was a prominent English Paracelsian physician with both scientific and occult interests. He is remembered...
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Paracelsus (category Paracelsians)
"Prognostications" being studied by Rosicrucians in the 17th century. Paracelsianism is the early modern medical movement inspired by the study of his works...
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chemist Jan Baptist van Helmont in the 17th century directly based on the Paracelsian notion of chaos. The g in gas is due to the Dutch pronunciation of this...
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practices, and purposes: "Scholastic and anti-Aristotelian, Paracelsian and anti-Paracelsian, Hermetic, Neoplatonic, mechanistic, vitalistic, and more—plus...
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the character of Professor Bulwer (who is mentioned in the film to be Paracelsian himself). This is made concrete in the film in the plague epidemic that...
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The Archidoxis magica (The Archidoxes of Magic) is a pseudo-Paracelsian grimoire of the 16th century. The book discusses magical sigils for the use on...
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Thomas Browne (category Paracelsians)
Sir Thomas Browne (/braʊn/ "brown"; 19 October 1605 – 19 October 1682) was an English polymath and author of varied works which reveal his wide learning...
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1717 by the French chemist, Louis Lémery, as a synonym for the older Paracelsian term "matrix." In keeping with 16th-century animism, Paracelsus had postulated...
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divulge it to mortal man." That alphabet is described in the pseudo-Paracelsian Archidoxis magica, translated into English by R. Turner (1656).[page needed]...
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in Augsburg during the early seventeenth century. Michelspacher was a paracelsian physician living in Tyrol. Alinda van Ackooy has suggested that as a...
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magocabalisticum et theosophicum by George von Welling (1719) – of alchemical and paracelsian inspiration – and the Aureum Vellus oder Goldenes Vliess by Hermann Fictuld...
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imaginative speculations on the quest for artificial life associated with Paracelsian alchemy. One of the very earliest literary references occurs in Thomas...
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of his father's theological one. Frederik had a strong proclivity for Paracelsian medicine: in 1571 he appointed Johannes Pratensis to the medical faculty...
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com. Retrieved 13 November 2015. Hedesan, Georgiana D. (July 2014). "Paracelsian Medicine and Theory of Generation in 'Exterior homo', a Manuscript Probably...
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of Western thought that had emerged since the Renaissance—among them Paracelsianism, Weigelianism, and Christian theosophy—in his book he labelled all of...
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Benedictus Figulus (category Paracelsians)
Rosicrucian from Uttenhofen. He was an editor of Paracelsian texts and an important representative of Paracelsianism in the early 17th century. At the beginning...
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Antichrist. In 1608 he returned to Tübingen. He came to know Tobias Hess, a Paracelsian physician with an interest in apocalyptic prophecy. From 1610 till 1612...
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natural minerals and the other two are synthetic products. The first are paracelsian and celsian, the second ones are hexacelsian and the other one is related...
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theoretician, and he leaned toward traditional Aristotelianism rather than Paracelsian alchemy. He was an opponent of Paracelsus on the grounds of Paracelsus'...
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Paracelsus & Sigerist tr. (1941), pp. 231–232 Veenstra, Jan R. (2013). "Paracelsian Spirits in Pope's Rape of the Lock". Airy Nothings: Imagining the Otherworld...
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coffin-plate, on display at the church of St Peter Mancroft, alludes to Paracelsian medicine and alchemy. Translated from Latin it reads, "Great Virtues...
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to Celticist Henry Jenner. Thus in the "astral plane" (or "Chaos", in Paracelsian jargon) for each of the four elements, earth, air/wind, fire, and water...
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doi:10.1163/2212943X-00501004. Debus, Allen G. (1965). The English Paracelsians. London: Oldbourne. ISBN 978-0444999610. Duchesne-Guillemin, Jacques...
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career he took an interest in Paracelsian medical theory for which he experienced some hostility. He associated with Paracelsians such as Thomas Moffet, Petrus...
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promoted an occult view of science[citation needed] containing elements of Paracelsian philosophy, neo-Platonism, Christian Cabala and Hermeticism. In effect...
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