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Magic into Science: The Story of Paracelsus
by Henry M. Pachter
Henry Schuman, New York, 1951, 360pp, HC.
[Europe, 16C]

    Chapters
  1. The Errant Knight of Science
  2. The Mountain
  3. Town and Gown
  4. Hippocrates vs. Galen
  5. Quack Doctor
  6. The Necromancer
  7. Microcosmos and Macrocosmos
  8. The Traveling Adept
  9. Under the Brogue
  10. Aureolus
  11. The Elixir of Long Life
  12. This Side of the Miraculous
  13. Call to Office
  14. The Challenge
  15. "Cacophrastus"
  16. Poisons, Bankers, and Pests
  17. Doctors and People
  18. Doctors and Money
  19. The Matter of Life
  20. The Copernican Turn
  21. Power, Freaks, and Frailities of Mind
  22. Imoortality and the Seven Souls
  23. In the Pit
  24. Professor of Theology
  25. Success at Last
  26. The Last Fight
  27. The Apology of Faustus
    Appendices
  1. Some Notes on Magic and Related Subjects
  2. The Historical Approach
  3. A Note on Theophrastus' Scotism
  4. Alchemy
  5. Bibliography
  6. A Note on the Quotations
  7. Chronology
    Illustrations
  1. "The Alchymist"
  2. Mondino Lecturing
  3. Vesalius Lecturing
  4. Paracelsus' signatures
  5. The Zodiac Man
  6. "The Four Horsemen"
  7. Title page of Hieronymous Brunschwig's Art of Distillation
  8. Johannes Herbst (Oporinus), professor at Basle and publisher of Vesalius' Fabrica
  9. "Death and the Maiden"
  10. Title page of Paracelsus' Astrological Practica for the year 1535
  11. "Young Man with a Broad-brimmed hat" (allegedly Paracelsus)