Paracelsian

On the superb BibliOdyssey blog, one of my absolute internet favorites, there's a fascinating post today with scans from 'De Naturae Simia', by Robert Fludd, an English Rosicrucian, Paracelsian physicist, astrologer, and mystic.

Boing Boing 2007

Instead of defining physical reality and analyzing change in terms of Aristotelian substance and form and the classical four elements of earth, air, fire, and water — or the three Paracelsian elements of salt, sulfur, and mercury — corpuscularism discussed reality and change in terms of particles and their motion.

Boyle, Robert 2008

In the sixteenth century, Paracelsian chemistry reduced and rearranged the four elements to three active principles: sulfur, salt, and mercury.

The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

Boyle was an advocate of corpuscularism, a form of atomism that was slowly displacing Aristotelian and Paracelsian views of the world.

Boyle, Robert 2008

Boyle published his Sceptical Chymist, which contained a vigorous criticism of the Aristotelian theory of elements and the Paracelsian theory of principles.

1657 2001

In 1941, Sigerist together with Gregory Zilboorg, Lilian Temkin, and myself issued Four Treatises of Paracelsus which contains my translation of the Paracelsian book on miners 'diseases, as well as Sigerist's translation of the book on "Nymphs, Sylphs… and other Spirits."

Reply Rosen, George 1972

The Paracelsian mercury, sulphur, and salt were the mineral analogues of these.

Bygone Beliefs 1969

[24] See the "Note on the Paracelsian Doctrine of the Microcosm" below.

Bygone Beliefs 1969

In the century between 1550 and 1650 conflicts between Paracelsian iatrochemists and more traditional Galenists were common.

Alchemy 1968

Finally, the Paracelsian and iatrochemical adoption of the primary goal of the medical alchemy of the Middle Ages resulted in the permanent acceptance of chemistry as a legitimate tool of the physician and the pharmacist.

Alchemy 1968