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001 2005019848
003 DLC
005 20050919075808.0
008 050713s2006 nyu b 001 0beng
010 $a 2005019848
020 $a9780374229795 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 $a0374229791 (hardcover : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aR147.P2$bB35 2006
082 00 $a610/.92$aB$222
100 1 $aBall, Philip,$d1962-
245 14 $aThe devil's doctor :$bParacelsus and the world of Renaissance magic and science /$cPhilip Ball.
250 $a1st American ed.
260 $aNew York :$bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,$c2006.
263 $a0603
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aBlack madonna: a country doctor -- The metal makers: learning the arts -- The universal scholar: a Renaissance education -- The staff and the snake: healing in the early renaissance -- Intellectual vagabonds: walking the pages of the book of nature -- A new religion: the trials of reformation -- Revolution under the sign of the shoe: sedition in Salzburg -- Transmutation at Ingolstadt: making gold -- Elixir and quintessence: a chemical medicine -- Bitter medicine: Paracelsus among the humanists -- The battle of Basle: how Paracelsus left town -- Against the grain: quicksilver and wood -- The alchemist inside: an hermetic biology -- Beyond wonders: the matrix of the world -- Star and ascendant: a science of prophesy -- Demons of the mind: invisible diseases -- The little man: animating the earth -- The white horse: death in Salzburg -- Work with fire: the chemical legacy of Paracelsus -- Philosopher's gold: the last of the chemical magicians.
600 10 $aParacelsus,$d1493-1541.
650 0 $aPhysicians$vBiography.
650 0 $aAlchemists$vBiography.
650 0 $aScience$xHistory$y16th century.
650 0 $aScience and magic.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0515/2005019848.html