The Devil's Doctor - Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science

Informationen zum Autor Philip Ball writes regularly in the scientific and popular media and worked for many years as an editor for physical sciences at Nature . His books cover a wide range of scientific and cultural phenomena, and include Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads To Another (winner of the 2005 Aventis Prize for Science Books), The Music Instinct , Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything, Serving The Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Science Under Hitler and Invisible: The History of the Unseen from Plato to Particle Physics . Klappentext Subtitled! "Paracelsus & The World Of Renaissance Magic & Science". Reveals the richness! complexity and chaos of 16th century Europe. Zusammenfassung Philip Theophrastus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim - known to later ages as Paracelsus - stands on the borderline between medieval and modern;

Product details

• Authors: Philip Ball, Ball Philip
• Publisher: Arrow
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.04.2007
• EAN: 9780099457879
• ISBN: 978-0-09-945787-9
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Philosophers, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, RELIGION / Wicca, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Magic, alchemy and hermetic thought, Magic, alchemy & hermetic thought, Non-Western philosophy, Biography: philosophy and social sciences, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600