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Author : Dylan Thomas
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 14,21 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780811202060
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Author : Sax Rohmer
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 13,97 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Fiction
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Author : Philip Ball
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 16,38 MB
Release : 2006-04-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 142992182X
Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim, who called himself Paracelsus, stands at the cusp of medieval and modern times. A contemporary of Luther, an enemy of the medical establishment, a scourge of the universities, an alchemist, an army surgeon, and a radical theologian, he attracted myths even before he died. His fantastic journeys across Europe and beyond were said to be made on a magical white horse, and he was rumored to carry the elixir of life in the pommel of his great broadsword. His name was linked with Faust, who bargained with the devil. Who was the man behind these stories? Some have accused him of being a charlatan, a windbag who filled his books with wild speculations and invented words. Others claim him as the father of modern medicine. Philip Ball exposes a more complex truth in The Devil's Doctor—one that emerges only by entering into Paracelsus's time. He explores the intellectual, political, and religious undercurrents of the sixteenth century and looks at how doctors really practiced, at how people traveled, and at how wars were fought. For Paracelsus was a product of an age of change and strife, of renaissance and reformation. And yet by uniting the diverse disciplines of medicine, biology, and alchemy, he assisted, almost in spite of himself, in the birth of science and the emergence of the age of rationalism. "Ball produces a vibrant, original portrait of a man of contradictions:" - Publishers Weekly
Author : David Henry Keller
Publisher : Ayer Company Pub
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 26,31 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780405081453
Author : Charles W. Gardner
Publisher :
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 47,12 MB
Release : 1894
Category : New York (N.Y.)
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Author : Keith Topping
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,36 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Life on other planets
ISBN : 9780563405641
YA. From the outer reaches of the universe Alien eyes are surveying the earth. 11 yrs+
Author : Dylan Thomas
Publisher :
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 36,52 MB
Release : 1973
Category :
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Author : Dylan Thomas
Publisher :
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 49,39 MB
Release : 1953
Category :
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Author : Christian Bernadac
Publisher :
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 33,18 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Concentration camps
ISBN :
Author : Dylan Thomas
Publisher :
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 26,67 MB
Release : 1968
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