SEEING “MICROCOSMA ”. Paracelsus’s Gendered Epistemology

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction xi
5. PARACELSIANA
6. PARACELSUS’ S BIOGRAPHY AMONG HIS DETRACTORS 3
7. PARACELSUS AND THE BOUNDARIES OF MEDICINE IN E ARLY MODERN AUGSBURG 19
8. TO BE OR NOT TO BE A PARACELSIAN. Something Spagyric in the State of Denmark 35
9. “A SPEDIE REFORMATION ”. Barber-Surgeons, Anatomization, and the Reformation of Medicine in Tudor London 71
10. SEEING “MICROCOSMA ”. Paracelsus’s Gendered Epistemology 93
11. PARACELSUS ON BAPTISM AND THE ACQUIRING OF THE ETERNAL BODY 117
12. PARACELSUS AND VAN HELMONT ON IMAGINATION. Magnetism and Medicine before Mesmer 135
13. NATURAL MAGIC AND NATURAL WONDERS
14. UNHOLY ASTROLOGY. Did Pico Always View It That Way? 151
15. WINE AND OBSCENITIES. Astrology’s Degradation in the Five Books of Rabelais 163
16. ROBERT BOYLE , “THE SCEPTICAL CHYMIST,” AND HEBREW 187
17. JOHANNES PRAETORIUS. Early Modern Topography and the Giant Rübezahl 207
18. DEMONS, NATURAL MAGIC, AND THE VIRTUALLY REAL. Visual Paradox in Early Modern Europe 223
19. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PARACELSIANA AND EARLY MODERN SCIENCE . 247
20. INDEX 257