Paracelsus (Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim, 1493–1541), Cosmological and Meteorological Writings (Aries Book Series, 36)

Book info: Paracelsus (Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim, 1493–1541), Cosmological and Meteorological Writings (Aries Book Series, 36) (Hardcover, 762 pages) – Brill, 2024. Language: English.

Paracelsus (1493-1541) stands at a crossroads associated with the Renaissance and Reformation. His cosmological-meteorological writings exemplify the turning point that concluded the older worldview and opened fresh avenues. His nature philosophy is inseparable from his medicine. This volume encompasses Paracelsus’s writings on cosmology and meteorology in the German original with facing-page translations. The reliable source texts have been treated with methods of critical edition. The source text and translation are accompanied by commentary elucidating their obscurity through the context of his full corpus while placing them in the context of the best secondary literature from his time to the present. Editorial Reviews About the Author Didier Kahn is Senior Researcher at the CNRS (Cellf 16-18, UMR 8599, Sorbonne Université). He has extensively published on alchemy, including Alchimie et paracelsisme en France à la fin de la Renaissance (Droz, 2007) and La Messe alchimique attribuée à Melchior de Sibiu (Classiques Garnier, 2015).

Andrew Weeks, Ph.D. (1979), professor emeritus of German literature at Illinois State University, has published monographs on Paracelsus, Valentin Weigel, and Jacob Böhme, and translations of their writings. Most recently, he organized and published the results of a symposium on The Forgotten Reformation (in Daphnis 2020).