{"product_id":"pseudo-paracelsus-forgery-and-early-modern-alchemy-medicine-and-natural-philosophy-9789004503373","title":"Pseudo-Paracelsus: Forgery and Early Modern Alchemy, Medicine and Natural Philosophy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe production of forgeries under the name of the Swiss physician Paracelsus (1493\/94-1541) was an integral part of the diffusion of the Paracelsian movement in early modern Europe. Many of these texts were widely read and extremely influential. The inability of most readers of the time to distinguish the genuine from the fake amid the flood of publications contributed much to the emergence of Paracelsus’ legendary image as the patron of alchemy and occult philosophy. Innovative studies on largely overlooked aspects of Paracelsianism along with an extensive catalogue of Paracelsian forgeries make this volume an essential resource for future studies.    Contributors are Tobias Bulang, Dane T. Daniel, Charles D. Gunnoe, Jr., Hiro Hirai, Didier Kahn, Julian Paulus, Lawrence M. Principe, and Martin Žemla.     Originally published as Special Issue of the journal Early Science and Medicine, volume 24 (2019), no. 5-6 (published February 2020), with a revised Introduction and a new Appendix by Julian Paulus, entitled “A Catalogue Raisonné of Pseudo-Paracelsian Writings: Texts Attributed to Paracelsus and Paracelsian Writings of Doubtful Authenticity,” has been added.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes on Contributors   List of Illustrations      Introduction    Didier Kahn and Hiro Hirai      The Authenticity of Paracelsus’ Astronomia Magna and Brief an die Wittenberger Theologen: Towards a Diagnostic Rubric Clarifying  Authentic and Spurious Elements in Paracelsus’ Oeuvre on the Basis  of Theological Motifs    Dane T. Daniel      The Philosophia ad Athenienses in the Light of Genuine  Paracelsian Cosmology    Didier Kahn      Genealogy of Knowledge and Delegitimization of Universities:  The Pseudo-Paracelsian Aurora Philosophorum    Tobias Bulang      Into the Forger’s Library: The Genesis of De natura rerum in  Publication History    Hiro Hirai      Paracelsus, the Plague, and De Pestilitate    Charles D. Gunnoe, Jr.      The Astronomia Olympi novi and the Theologia Cabalistica:  Two Pseudo-Paracelsian Works of the Philosophia Mystica (1618)    Martin Žemla      The Development of the Basil Valentine Corpus and Biography: Pseudepigraphic Corpora and Paracelsian Ideas    Lawrence M. Principe      Appendix: A Catalogue raisonné of Pseudo-Paracelsian Writings: Texts Attributed to Paracelsus and Paracelsian Writings of Doubtful Authenticity    Julian Paulus      Index Nominum   Indices to the Appendix","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210835222871,"sku":"9789004503373","price":137.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/pseudo-paracelsus-forgery-and-early-modern-alchemy-medicine-and-natural-philosophy-9789004503373","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}