Indexes/Paracelsian Moments, ed. Scholz Williams and Gunnoe (2002)

Indexes/Paracelsian Moments, ed. Scholz Williams and Gunnoe (2002)

Abendmahlsschriften (Paracelsus), 117–22
Abu Mashar, 158
Academica (Cicero), 243n.49, 244
acrostics, 215
Adam, 57–58, 93, 107, 121
Ady, Thomas, 242, 244
Agricola, Georg, 212
Agrippa, Heinrich Cornelius, xv, 58n.70
Alcocke, Nicholas, 74
Aldrovandi, Ulisse, 48
Alessandrini, Giulio (Julius Alexandrinus von Neustein), 7, 7n.13
“Almanach pour l’an 1541” (Rabelais), 164, 167, 178–79, 179n.69
almanacs, 163–64, 179n.69
Alms House (Augsburg), 24
Alsop, Thomas, 74
amber, 61n.78, 140
am Wald, Georg, 25
anamorphosis, 235, 236, 237–38
anatomical portrayals, 83, 83–85
The Anatomical Table of John Banister, 83, 83–84
El Anatomista (Andahazi), 111–12, 112n.87
anatomy, xxi. See also Barber-Surgeons’ Company of London
Anatomy (Columbo), 84
Anatomy of Melancholy (Burton), 223–24, 231
Andahazi, Federico: El Anatomista, 111–12, 112n.87
Andernach, Gunther von, xii
angels, 155
Antichrist, 216, 229
antimony, 19
apocalypticism, 238
Apology for Raymond Sebond (Montaigne), 227
apparitions, 229
Aquinas, Thomas, 240
Arceus, Francisco: A Most Excellent and Compendious Method of Curing Woundes in the Head, 79
Aristotelianism of Caspar Bartholin, 43, 43nn.21–22, 46, 49–52, 66 and Paracelsianism, xviii, 37, 42–43, 43nn.21–22, 45–46, 66
Aristotle Categories, 46 on form, matter, and privation, 60 on imagination, 135–36 Metaphysica, 46 Meteors, 46 on movement/life, 50 natural philosophy of, 58, 73 On Generation and Corruption, 46 On the Heavens, 46 On the World, 46 The Organon, 46 on original knowledge, 58 Physics, 56–57 Prior and Posterior Analytics, 46 Rhetorica, 46 Topics, 46
Arnald of Villanova, 6
Ars magna lucis et umbrae (Kircher), 237–38
Ars magnesia (Kircher), 141
Asclepius, 167
Aslakssøn, Kort, 38, 40n.15
astrology, xx and medicine, 163–64, 164n.4 predictions via, 164–67, 165n.6 See also Disputations against Judicial Astrology; Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel; 900 Theses
Astronomia magna (Paracelsus), xix, 117– 18, 129–30, 129–30n.46
atomism, 200, 201, 202
Augsburg, 20–21
Augsburg Medical College, xvii, 21–33 and the apothecary ordinance, 24–25 barber-surgeons of, 31–32 and Engelman, 29–30 and female healers, 31–32 and Fischer, 30 and Sebastian Froben, 25–28 and Herdt, 28–29, 32 and medical authority, 22–23 members’ responsibilities, 24 on Paracelsian healers and unofficial medicine, 20–21, 24–33 and Paracelsus’s visit to Augsburg, 21 and Thalhauser, 21–22 on women’s diseases, 31–32
Augustine, Saint, 124, 128, 189, 240
autopsia, xviii, 72, 72n.2, 79, 92
Avicenna: Canon, xii
Ayliffe, Sir John, 74
Bacon, Francis, 53, 53n.54
New Atlantis, 236
Baker, George The Nature and Propertie of Quicksilver, 79 The Newe Jewell of Health, 79
Bakhtin, Mikhail, 163, 172n.35, 177
Banister, John, 46–47 on anatomy, 92 career/influence of, 78, 84 The Historie of Man, 78–79 A Needefull, New, and Necessarie Treatise of Chyrurgerie, 78 on physic vs. surgery, 86–87 portrait of, 83, 83–85
baptism, xix, 117–34 Catholics on, 125, 125n.30, 127, 127n.39 ceremony of, 118, 123–27, 123n.24, 124–25nn.26–31, 126n.35, 133 of children, 127–28, 127n.39, 128n.41 and creation by Christ, 119–22, 120n.11, 132 effects of, 118, 122, 122nn.21–22, 128–30, 128–30nn.44–46, 128nn.41–42 exceptions to, 127–28, 127n.39, 133 by fire, 132–33, 132n.53 and immortal philosophy, 119–22, 119nn.6–7, 120–21nn.11–13, 121n.16, 122nn.20–22, 133–34 inclusiveness of, 126–27, 126n.35, 130, 133 and the limbus, 119, 119n.6, 121–22, 122n.20 and natural philosophy, 129–33 necessity of, 123–24, 124n.25, 127 and physicians’ sight, 98 as a sign, 128–29, 128–29nn.44–45 spiritualist view of, 133, 133n.55 and virgin birth, 129–30, 129– 30n.46
Barber-Surgeons’ Company of London, 71–92 anatomical/surgical regulations by, 71–72, 76–77, 79–80, 81, 91–92 anatomy/dissection demonstrations by, 79–85, 80–81n.20, 80n.17, 81n.22, 83, 92 on apprentices/freemen, training of, 79–81, 81n.22, 92 autopsia skills of, xviii, 72, 72n.2, 79, 92 barbers’ tasks, 76 Celsus’s influence on, 71 on empiricism, 76–77, 85–86 founding of, 72–76, 75 Galen’s influence on, 71, 73, 75–76, 84–86 involvement in life of London, 73, 73n.4 and London’s health crisis, 73–74 Masters’ election/tasks, 84 mission of, 73–75, 92 and physicians vs. surgeons, 72–73, 75–76, 79, 81–82, 86–90 publications by, 76–77 on quacks, 71, 72, 77–78, 87–92, 92n.53 reforms by, 82–83, 85, 91–92 religious imagery/underpinnings of, 75–76, 85, 92 reputation/image of, xviii, 71 size/hierarchy of, 76 skin diseases treated by, 77 on surgeons’ manners, 81–82 surgeons’ tasks, 76 syphilis treated by, 77 on theft/tanning of human skin, 82 vernacular used by, 85, 87–88
Bartholin, Caspar Aristotelianism of, 43, 43nn.21–22, 46, 49–52, 66 on chemical drugs, 52–53, 52n.52 De aquis, 51–52 De mixtione, 51–52 De philosophiae in medicinae usu et necessitate, 49–50, 52–53 De studio medico, 46–49 Enchiridion metaphysicum, 47–48 Exercitatio disputationis secundae ordinariae, 49, 51 on fire, 52 Galenism of, 51–53 Grell on, 40n.15, 42–44, 46–47, 49, 52, 52n.52 on iatrochemistry, 46–47, 53 influences on, 65 as a medical humanist, 47, 51–52 on natural philosophy, 41 and the New Constitutions, 44, 45, 47–48 Paracelsian influence on, xvii–xviii, 40n.15, 42–43, 46–50, 52–53, 66–67 Physica generalis praecepta, 50 Problematum philosophicorum, 50–51 on Severinus, 46–49, 57 at University of Copenhagen, 54 on water, 52, 52n.49
Bartholin, Rasmus, 62, 62n.85
Bartholin, Thomas, 51 Cista medica hafniensis, 57
Barton, Tamsyn, 164n.4
Basel University, xi–xii
Battus, Levinus, 17
Bauhin, Caspar, 65
Bauhin, Mathiolus, 48
Beaumont, John, 240
Becco, Anne, 193
Beguin, Jean, 48
believers, types of, 120–21n.12
Bellanti, Luca, 159, 160
Benzenhöfer, Udo, xiv
Bernbacher, Mrs. Jacob, 29
Bernheim, Hippolyte, 146
Berrong, Richard M., 165n.7
Bettini, Mario, 236, 237
biblical exegesis, 188–89, 188n.3, 197–98
Biegger, Katharina, xiv
Biel, Gabriel, 127, 127n.39
Biese, Nicolaus, 7, 7n.13
Blockes-Berges Verrichtung (Praetorius), 220–21
Boccaccio, Giovanni: Genealogy of the Gods, 213–14
Bodenstein, Adam von, xii, 23
Bodin, Jean, 211
body geographic, 178, 178n.68 interiority of, 181n.86, 182 mechanical, 178n.68 as microcosm of the universe, xxi and soul, 146 as a temple that mirrors the cosmos, 184n.95 as unexplored world, 178 See also Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel
Boetius de Boodt, Anselm, 48
Bohemian Brethren, 6n.12
Boll, Franz, 160
Bonatti, Antonio, 160
Booke of Observations (Clowes), 79
Bostocke, Richard, 16–17, 71
Boyer, Alain-Michel, 179, 179n.69
Boyle, Robert background/education of, 194 on biblical revelation, xxi on borrowing, 198–99 corpuscularism of, xxi, 188, 200– 205, 200n.43, 202n.48 The Excellency of Theology, 195, 201, 203 Hebraism of, xxi, 187–88, 194–99, 197–98n.35, 200 on Jewish readmittance to England, 199 on Jewish sacrifices, 199–200 Maimonides’s influence on, 199–200 on mechanism, 201–2, 201n.47 on natural philosophical basis of Genesis, 202–5 natural philosophy of, 194–95 on rabbinical works, 200, 200n.41 The Sceptical Chymist, 202, 203 on science, 195 on semina, 188, 202–5, 202n.48 Some Considerations touching the Style of the Holy Scriptures, 195–97 theology of, 194–95, 204
Brahe, Tycho, 37–38, 47, 48
“brains in a vat” problem, 244
Brauchius, Balthasar, 14
Brestle, Hans, 26
Brochmand, Jesper, 41, 43n.20, 44, 46
Brosse, Guy de la, 64
Bryson, Norman, 231
Bullard, Melissa, 159n.32
Bullinger, Heinrich, 3, 9–10
Bürgle, David, 25–26, 30
Burke, Peter, 32n.48
Burnett, Duncan: De praeparatione et compositione medicamentorum chymicorum artificiosa Duncani Bornetti Scoti, 63–64
Burton, Robert: Anatomy of Melancholy, 223–24, 231
Butts, William, 74
Buxtorf, Johannes (Elder and Younger), 188n.3
Cajetan, Tommaso de Vio Gaetani, 127, 127n.39
camera obscura, 234, 237
Campanus, Johannes, 133n.55
Canon (Avicenna), xii
Carlino, Andrea, 84–85
Carlstadt, Andreas Bodenstein von, 133n.55
carnivalesque humor, 172n.35
Cartesian philosophy, 238. See also Descartes, René
Casaubon, Meric, 239
Cassirer, Ernst, 160
Categories (Aristotle), 46
Catholics on baptism, 125, 125n.30, 127, 127n.39 Spiritualist, 133, 133n.55 visual elements of Catholic piety, 228–29
Celestial Hierarchies, 167n.16
celestial spirits/intelligences, 155
Celsus, Aulus Cornelius, 71
Certaine Workes of Chirurgerie (Gale), 77
Cesalpino, Andrea, 48
Cham, 214n.32
Chambre, John, 74
chaos, 142
Charisius, Jonas, 47, 55–56
Charisius, Peter, 47, 48, 56n.62
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 166
chemical philosophy, 35–36
chemistry, xxi
Chirurgia Parva (Lanfranc), 86
Christ belief in, 120–21, 120–21nn.12–13 creation by, 119–22, 120n.11, 132 and the Trinity, 106, 120 virgin birth of, 129–30, 129–30n.46
Cicero: Academica, 243n.49, 244
Le cinquième livre (Rabelais), 171–72, 171n.34, 176, 181
Cista medica hafniensis (T. Bartholin), 57
civility and education, 82
Clark, Stuart, xxii
Clarke, Samuel, 197
clitoris, 111–12
Clowes, William on anatomy, 92 and Baker, 79 Booke of Observations, 79 career/influence of, 78 De Morbo Gallico, 90 A Prooved Practice for all Young Chirurgians, 78 on quacks, 90–91 A Right Frutefull and Approoved Treatise for the Artificiall cure of that malady called in Latin struma, and in English, the evill, cured by Kinges and Queenes of England, 78
Clusius, Carolus (Charles de Lécluse), 48
Colie, Rosalie, 232–35, 234n.24, 236–37
College of Medicine (Augsburg), xvii
College of Physicians, 73–74
Colloquium Ferdinandi regis cum D. Theophrasto Paracelsus Svevo, 8–9, 8–9n.19
Colombo, Mateo Renaldo, 111–12
Columbo, Realdo: Anatomy, 84
Commentaries on the Works of Various Authors who spoke of Antiquity (Viterbensis), 213n.31
Company of Barbers, 72, 73. See also Barber-Surgeons’ Company of London
The Compound of Alchymie (Ripley), 190
contradiction, 234n.24
Controversiarum medicarum exercitationes (O. Worm), 58–60
Coornhert, Dirk, 133n.55
Cop, Martin, 19
Copernicus, Nicolas, 161
corpuscularism, xxi, 188, 200–205, 200n.43, 202n.48
Corpus Hermeticum, 168, 173n.43, 174n.45
Coudert, Allison P., 193
Court of Assistants, 91–92
Crary, Jonathan, 224–25
Crato von Krafftheim, Johannes, 3, 6–9, 8n.17, 14
Craven, William, 161
creation by Christ, 119–22, 120n.11, 132 by God vs. Christ, 119–21 Helmont on, 193–94 Leibniz on, 193–94 as microcosm, 93, 106–8 vs. procreation, 106–9, 132
Cretan liar, 232, 233
criminals, executed, 80–81, 80nn.17, 19– 20
Croll, Oswald, 48, 139–40
Cromwell, Oliver, 214
Cudworth, Ralph, 198
cultural anthropology, 146
curiosity, xi–xii
Curraunce, Helen, 90–91
Daemonologia Rubinzalii (Praetorius), xxi, xxii, 208–22, 217nn.46–47 acrostics used in, 211, 215–18 on authenticity of Rübezahl’s life, 208–9, 211, 214 on birth of Rübezahl, 216 on the Devil, 217–19, 219n.53, 221, 221n.61 experiential realism of, 209 eyewitness accounts in, 214 forms of social distribution used in, 212–13 on ghosts, 216–17 on name/nature of Rübezahl, 214, 214n.35 numbers used in, 216 on pastimes of Rübezahl, 218, 218n.50 popularity of, 208 and the preternatural in early modern natural history, 209–10 publication of, 207–8 on the Riesengebirge and its people, 218–20, 219n.54, 220n.56 on Rübezahl as elemental spirit, 216 on Rübezahl as mountain sprite/demon, 212, 215, 221 on Rübezahl as shapeshifter, 220 shared forms of externalization used in, 212 shared ideas used in, 212 sources for, 211–12 on water spirits, 212 on wealth of Rübezahl, 218, 219 on weather making by Rübezahl, 221, 221n.58 on will-o’-the-wisps, 221–22 d’Aguilon, François, 223–24, 237
Daigeler, Hans, 26
da Monte, Giovanni Battista, 7
Daniel, Dane Thor, xix
Daston, Lorraine, 208
Deacon, John: Dialogicall discourses of spirits and divels, 239–40
De amore (Ficino), 136
De aquis (C. Bartholin), 51–52
Debus, Allen, xiv, 16, 49
De Caduco Matricis (Paracelsus), 94–95
De causis morborum invisibilium (Paracelsus), 138–39
Dee, John, 192
“La défense et illustration de la langue française” (Du Bellay), 181n.80
De genealogia Christi (Paracelsus), 117–18, 120, 127, 131–32
De imaginatione oratio (Nymann), 231
De la dissection des parties du corps humain (Estienne), 111
Della Porta, Giambattista, 48, 136 Magia naturalis, 237
Della Torre, Raffaele: Tractatus de potestate ecclesiae coercendi daemones, 240–41
Del Río, Martín, 223–24
De magnete, magnetisque corporibus, et de magno magnete tellure (Gilbert), 140
De magnetica vulnerum…curatione (Helmont), 142
De Matrice (Paracelsus), 95, 108–9
De methodo medendi as The institucion of chyrurgerie (Galen of Pergamum), 77
De mixtione (C. Bartholin), 51–52
Democrates, 201
demonology and landscape, 220–21 and vision, xxii, 229, 231, 232, 238– 45, 240n.39
De Morbo Gallico (Clowes), 90
Denmark, 41–42. See also under Paracelsianism
De philosophiae in medicinae usu et necessitate (C. Bartholin), 49–50, 52–53
De praeparatione et compositione medicamentorum chymicorum artificiosa Duncani Bornetti Scoti (Burnett), 63–64
Descartes, René, 146, 178n.68, 201, 226
Dioptrics, 245
First Meditation, 223–24, 227, 244–45
despair, 139
Despasianus, 31
Dessen von Kronenburg, Bernhard: Medicina veteris et rationalis, 16
De studio medico (C. Bartholin), 46–49
Devil. See demonology
De viribus imaginationis tractatus (Fienus), 231
diagnostic gaze, xix, 95–96, 101–6
Dialogicall discourses of spirits and divels (Deacon and J. Walker), 239–40
digestion, 107, 107n.66
Dioptrics (Descartes), 245
diseases belief as producing, 139, 144 categories/definition of, 59 seeds of, 142–43
Disputations against Judicial Astrology (Pico), xx, 152–56, 158–62
Disputations on the New Medicine of P. Paracelsus (Erastus), xvi–xvii, 3–17 on alcoholism/impiety of Paracelsus, 9–12 Bullinger’s account in, 9–10 on childhood of Paracelsus, 6 Crato’s accounts in, 6–9, 8n.17, 14 influence of, 15–16, 16n.35 on magic practiced by Paracelsus, 9– 12, 15 on malpractice by Paracelsus, 7, 13– 15 on Paracelsus in Bavaria, 12–14 on Paracelsus in Hungary, 7 on Paracelsus in Moravia, 7–8, 7n.14 on Paracelsus in Vienna, 8 on Paracelsus in Zurich, 9–10 Recklau’s account in, 12–14 reliability of, 4–5, 15–18 short testimonies in, 14–15, 15n.34 sources for, 5–6 Vetter’s account in, 10–12, 11n.23, 17 doctors, astrology used by, 163–64
Donne, John, 93
Dorn, Gerhard, xii
drinking metaphor, 180–81, 181nn.76–77
Du Bellay, Joachim: “La défense et illustration de la langue française,” 181n.80
Duden, Barbara, 112–13
Eamon, William, 102
education and civility, 82
Elixir Tychonis Brahei, 48
empiricism Barber-Surgeons on, 76–77, 85–86 of Galen, 63, 66 and Paracelsianism, 53–54, 62–63, 65–66 of Ole Worm, 65–66
Encelius (Christoph Entzel), 48
Enchiridion metaphysicum (C. Bartholin), 47–48
Engelman, Matthias, 29–30
English Civil War (1642–49), xiii–xiv
epistemology and loving, 100, 101n.37
Epistola Scripta Theophrasto Paracelso (P. Severinus), 58n.70
Erasmus, Desiderius, xi, 82, 133n.55
Erastianism, 4
Erastus, Thomas, xvii, 4, 67, 191n.11. See also Disputations on the New Medicine of P. Paracelsus
Estienne, Charles: De la dissection des parties du corps humain, 111
eternal body through baptism. See baptism
ether, 141
ethnology, 146
Etliche Tractaten (Paracelsus), 116
“evil genius” argument, 244. See also First Meditation
Evonymus (Gesner), 79
The Excellency of Theology (Boyle), 195, 201, 203
Exercitatio disputationis secundae ordinariae (C. Bartholin), 49, 51
experience, xi–xii
experiential realism, 209
Ezekiel, 182n.82
Fagius, Paul, 188n.3
Febvre, Lucien, 163, 163n.2
Fechner, Johannes, 211
felons, executed, 80–81, 80nn.17, 19–20
Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, 7, 7n.13, 8–9
Fernel, Jean François, 48 Pathologia, 78
Ferris, Richard, 74
Festugière, A.J., 172–73n.37
Ficino, Marsilio, 58n.70 on astral influences, 184n.95 De amore, 136 On Obtaining Life from the Heavens, 153, 157, 158, 159n.32, 161 and Pico, on astrology, 153–61
Fienus, Thomas: De viribus imaginationis tractatus, 231
Fincke, Thomas, 41, 44n.24, 56n.62
First Meditation (Descartes), 223–24, 227, 244–45
Fischer, Hans, 30
Flood, 214n.32
Fludd, Robert, 58n.70 Mosaicall Philosophy, 191
force, concept of, 141
Foss, Niels Christensen, 64n.93
Foucault, Michel, 224
Francis I, king of France, 166
Franck, Sebastian, 133n.55
Freud, Sigmund, 143n.37, 146 “The Uncanny,” 103
Friedrich, Prince, 28, 29
Friis, Christian, 41, 55–56, 56n.62, 57
Froben, Johannes, xi, xii, 14
Froben, Sebastian, 25–28, 30
“fundament” as the grave, 177
Gale, Thomas on anatomy, 92 career/influence of, 77–78 Certaine Workes of Chirurgerie, 77 empiricism of, 86 on physic vs. surgery, 86–87 on quacks, 87
Galenism of Caspar Bartholin, 51–53 vs. Paracelsianism, 36, 37, 42–43, 66 of Ole Worm, 60, 63, 66
Galen of Pergamum, 48 Barber-Surgeons as influenced by, 71, 73, 75–76, 84, 85, 86 De methodo medendi as The institucion of chyrurgerie, 77 empiricism of, 63, 66 on physic vs. surgery, 87
Gantenbein, Urs Leo, xiv
Gargantua. See Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel
Garin, Eugenio, 156–58
gases, 142
Gassendi, Pierre, 66, 67
Gause, Ute, xiv
Geber: The Summa Perfectionis, 201
gendered epistemology, xviii–xix. See also microcosma, seeing of gendering of nature, 218n.51
Genealogy of the Gods (Boccaccio), 213–14
Genesis, xxi and microcosma, 93, 95, 106–9
natural philosophical basis of, 190– 94, 202–5
genitalia, 102–3, 110, 111n.78
Geoffrey of Monmouth: History of the Kings of Britain, 213–14
geographic body, 178, 178n.68
Gerard, John: Herball, 79
Gerson, Jean de, 127, 127n.39
Gesner, Konrad, 3, 5, 10, 48, 79 Evonymus, 79
ghosts, 229–30
giants, 213–15, 214n.32. See also Daemonologia Rubinzalii; Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel; Rübezahl
Gilbert, William, xx De magnete, magnetisque corporibus, et de magno magnete tellure, 140
Gilly, Carlos, xiv, 67, 68
Glanville, Joseph, 201
Glauber, Johann R., 203n.52
God belief in, 120–21nn.12–13 name of, 167–68, 167–68n.18 signs of, 168–72, 170nn.29–30, 171n.32, 173, 180, 185–86 as a sphere without circumference, 185, 185n.97
Gog, 213
Gogmagog, 213n.31
Goldammer, Kurt, xiv, xix on divine-spiritual corporeality of Christ, 120 on knowledge and loving, 100, 101n.37
Goldish, Matt, 189–90, 193
Goliath, 213
gravity, 141
Greaves, Thomas, 197
Greek skepticism, 227–28
Grell, Ole Peter, xiv on Bartholin, 40n.15, 42–44, 46–47, 49, 52, 52n.52 on Danish Lutheranism, 41–42 on iatrochemistry, 46–47 on the New Constitutions, 44 on Paracelsianism, generally, 39n.11, 40, 40n.15, 66, 67 on Resen, 40n.15 on Worm, 39n.11, 40n.15, 54–55, 55n.60, 57–59, 62–65, 65n.96 Die Grosse Wundarznei (Paracelsus), x, xii, 21–22
Gsell, Monika, 111n.78
Guide for the Perplexed (Maimonides), 199–200
Gunnoe, Charles D., Jr., xvi–xvii
gynecology. See De Caduco Matricis; De Matrice; microcosma, seeing of
Habsburg-Valois wars (1494–1559), 166
Halle, John career/influence, 77–78 empiricism of, 86 on English vs. Latin, 86–88 An Historiall Expostulation: Against the bestlye Abusers, both of Chyrurgerie and Physyke in oure time, 77, 88–90 on physic vs. surgery, 86–87, 89–90
Hammond, Mitchell, xvii
hangings, 80–81n.20
Harman, Edmund, 74
Harmonices mundi/The Harmony of the World (Kepler), 161, 192–93
Hartmann, Johann, 46–49, 59, 61, 64, 64n.93
Hebrew and Genesis and natural philosophy, 190–94, 202–5 goals of studying, 188–90, 188n.3, 197–98 See also Boyle, Robert, Hebraism of
Heimliche (arcana), 101–5, 101n.40, 113– 14
Helmont, Johann Baptist van. See van Helmont, Johann Baptist
Helmontianism, 36n.1
Henry VIII, king of England, 72, 74–75, 75, 77
Heptaplus (Pico), 152, 153, 156–59, 160, 161
Herball (Gerard), 79
Herden, Helferich, 243
Herdt, Georg, 28–29, 32
Hermeticism, 57–58, 58n.70 dualisms of, 174, 174n.45 on the Fall, 174, 174n.45
Hermetic texts, 167–68, 167– 68nn.16–17, 172 on materiality, 171–74, 172– 74nn.35, 37, 41, 45, 180–81, 181n.76 on the spheres, 173, 173n.43
Hess, Tobias, 31
Hilliard, Nicholas, 83
Hippocrates, 48, 73, 87
An Historiall Expostulation: Against the bestlye Abusers, both of Chyrurgerie and Physyke in oure time (Halle), 77, 88–90
The Historie of Man (Banister), 78–79
The Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel (Rabelais), 163–86, 213–14 on the body as microcosm of the universe, 178–79, 185–86 on the body’s physicality, 172–78, 180, 185–86 on the body’s physical/spiritual workings, 179–80 Le cinquième livre, 171–72, 171n.34, 176, 181 Her Trippa in, 174–78, 180 on imagination, 179–80 Panurge’s oracle experience, 183–84, 183n.90 prophecy in, 170–71 on signs of God, 168–72, 170nn.29–30, 171n.32, 180, 185–86 on the spheres/zodiac, 184–85 on stellar signs vs. human body’s divinely inspired knowledge, xx–xxi the sybil in, 174, 176–77, 176n.56, 177n.61, 180 the temple of the oracle in, 184, 184n.95 Thaumaste’s debate with Panurge, 168–71, 170nn.29–30 Le tiers livre, 163, 165, 171, 173–74, 178–80, 184 wine metaphor in, 180–86
History of the Kings of Britain (Geoffrey of Monmouth), 213–14
Hobbes, Thomas, 223
Hocker, Jodocus: Der Teuffel selbst, 221n.61
Hohenheim, Theophrastus Bombastus von. See Paracelsus
Holbein the Younger, Hans, 74–76, 75, 75n.9
homunculi, 107–8, 108n.67
Horst, Johann Daniel, 61n.78, 69
Hundred Years War (1330s–1450s), 72
Hunnius, Nicolaus, 40n.12
Huntington, Robert, 197
Huser, Johann, 23
Hutchinson, Francis, 244
Hyde, Thomas, 197, 199
hysteria, 97, 97n.18, 143n.37
iatrochemistry, 35, 36, 38, 48, 66
Idea medicinae (P. Severinus), 23, 60, 67, 68, 190–91
Les illustrations de Gaule et singularitez de Troye (Lemaire de Belges), 213–14
imagination, 135–47
Aristotle on, 135–36
centrality to history of medicine, 135–36 and demonic possession, 136
Helmont on, 137, 142–47 and magic, 136–40 and magnetism, xix–xx, 136–37, 137n.9, 140–42, 144–47 and mass psychology, 139, 146, 146n.48
in men and women, 143–44, 143n.37
pejorative meaning of, 140n.24
power of, 135, 142–47
Rabelais on, 179–80 and suggestion, 146 and vision, 230, 239
immortal corporeality/philosophy. See baptism
Isidore of Seville, 235–36
Jay, Martin, 224
Jerome, Saint, 188n.3
Jersin, Jens Dinesen, 64–65, 65n.96
Jesuits, 236–37
Jesus. See Christ
Jewish mysticism. See Kabbalah
Jews conversion by, 199 conversion of, 188, 188n.3 readmittance to England, 199 sacrifices by, 199–200
Jones, G. Lloyd, 189
Jonsson, Arngrim, 61
Jorden, Edward, 52n.49
judicial astrology. See Disputations against Judicial Astrology
Judovitz, Dalia, 245
Jütte, Robert, xiv
Kabbalah, 152, 167–68n.18, 188, 188n.3, 191–93
Karthauser, Alexander, 13
Kaske, Carol, 160
Keller, Hildegard Elisabeth, xiv, xviii–xix
Kemp, Martin, 237
Kepler, Johannes, xx, 140, 141, 160, 223–24
Harmonices mundi, 192–93
The Harmony of the World, 161
On the New Star, 161
Kircher, Athanasius, xv, xx, 140, 236
Ars magna lucis et umbrae, 237–38
Ars magnesia, 141
Kolbenheyer, Erwin Guido, xiii
Kornerup, Bjørn, 43, 43nn.20–22
Krag, Ander, 38
Krämer (Heinrich Institutoris), 211
Kristeller, Paul Oskar, 160
Lacan, Jacques, 111n.78, 224
Lakoff, George, 209
landscape and demonology, 220–21
Lanfranc, 85
Chirurgia Parva, 86
Langlot, Joel, 62nn.85–86
languages, ancient vs. modern, 181–82, 181n.80
LeBon, Gustave, 146n.48
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 193–94
Leipa, Berthold von, 6, 7, 9
Leipa, Johanna von, 7n.15
Leipa, Johann von, 7
Leipa family, 6n.12, 7n.15
Leipzig, 207
Le Loyer, Pierre: Quatre livres des spectres, 223–24
Lemaire de Belges, Jean: Les illustrations de Gaule et singularitez de Troye, 213–14
Leucippus, 201
Lewis, Wyndham, 163
Libavius, Andreas, 16, 48–49, 59–60
Libellus de baptismate Christiano (Paracelsus), 117–18, 123, 123n.24, 125
Life of Apollonius (Philostratus), 240
limbus, 119, 119n.6, 121–22, 122n.20
Linacre, Thomas, 73
Lobelius, 48
lodestone, 140
London health crisis, 73–74. See also Barber-Surgeons’ Company of London
Longomontanus, Christian, 47
Lord’s Supper, 121, 121n.16
Lucretius, 201
Ludwig of Hessen-Darmstadt, 54n.56
Lull, Ramon, 6
Lundt, Bea, xiv
Luther, Martin, 7, 124, 125n.30
Lutheranism, 39, 41–42, 41n.16, 46
lychanthropy, 230
Macbeth (Shakespeare), 223–24
macrocosm, x, xix
Magenbuch, Johann, 14, 17
Magia naturalis (Della Porta), 237
Magia optica (G. Schott), 237
magic astral, xx, 154 black vs. white, xx, 136 demonic, 235, 240, 240n.39 and imagination, 136–40 and magnetism, 136–37 natural, 235–38 and vision, 226, 235–38
magic lanterns, 237
Magirus, Johannes, 47–48
magnetism animal (mesmerism), 140n.24, 141, 146 vs. electrics, 140 and imagination, xix–xx, 136–37, 137n.9, 140–42, 144–47 and magic, 136–37 and natural philosophy, 135 as world soul, 140–42
Magog, 213
Maignan, Emanuel, 237
Maimonides: Guide for the Perplexed, 199– 200
male hysteria, 143n.37
Manichaean dualism, 174n.45
Margaritha, Anthonius, 188n.3
Marichal, Robert, 165n.8
Mary, 95
mass psychology, 139, 146, 146n.48
Masten, Jeffrey, 177
Masters, G. Mallary, 181n.77
materiality Hermeticism on, 171–74, 172– 74nn.35, 37, 41, 45, 180–81, 181n.76 Pico on, 173, 173n.41, 186
Mauerkirche (walled church), xi
Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor, 7, 7n.13
mechanical body, 178n.68
Medicina veteris et rationalis (Dessen von Kronenburg), 16
medicine gendered (see microcosma, seeing of) history of, xii–xiii humanist, 63 orthodox vs. unorthodox, 19, 19n.2 professionalization of, xviii See also Augsburg Medical College; Barber-Surgeons’ Company of London
Medigo, Elia del, 152
melancholy, 143–44, 230
Melanchthon, Philipp, 7, 38, 39, 211
Melusine of Lusignan, 212n.23
Menassah ben Israel, 194, 194n.21
Mentzer, Balthasar, 54n.56
Mephistopheles, 210
Mersenne, Marin, 227
Merton, Robert K., 204n.53
Mesmer, Franz Anton, xx, 140n.24, 146
mesmerism, 140n.24, 141, 146
Metaphysica (Aristotle), 46
Meteorology (Paracelsus), 190
Meteors (Aristotle), 46
Mettra, Claude, 178
microcosma, seeing of, 93–115 creation as microcosm, 93, 106–8 and creation vs. procreation, 106–9 and the differences between the sexes, 106–9, 111, 111n.78 epistemological/ethical implications of, 100 and the eye as an organ, 96–100, 96n.12 and gynecology/obstetrics, disputes about, 110–12 and the heart, 97–98 and Heimliche, 101–5, 101n.40, 113–14 and history of anatomy, 112–13 and hysteria, 97, 97n.18 and inner seeing, 101–2, 101n.40 macro- vs. microcosm, xix, 95 meaning of, 93 and physicians’ blindness, 97–98, 104 and the physician’s gaze, xix, 95–96, 101–6 and secreta mulierum, 94, 103–4 and secrets, 99, 101–2 and signs, allocation/reading of, 104–5, 115 as taboo, 110 and the Trinity, 106 and the uterus, 98–100 and visual competence via experience, 113–15 and the woman’s matrix, xix, 93–94, 98–100, 99n.30
Midelfort, H.C. Erik, xix
midwives, 110
Miller, David, 26
miracles, 228–29
mirrors, 233, 234
Mondeville, Henri de, 85
Monforde, James, 74
Montaigne, Michel de, 223–24, 228
Apology for Raymond Sebond, 227
Moran, Bruce, xiv
Moran, Jean, 199–200n.41
Moravsky Krumlov (Moravia), 7, 7n.14
More, Henry, 241–43
More, Thomas, 82
Moritz, 54n.56
Mosaicall Philosophy (Fludd), 191
Moschus the Phoenician, 201, 202
Moses, 58n.70
A Most Excellent and Compendious Method of Curing Woundes in the Head (Arceus), 79
A Most Excellent and Compendious Method of Curing Woundes in the Head (Read), 88
mountain sprites/spirits, xv, 212
Muenster, Sebastian, 188n.3
Museo Circheriano (Rome), 238
natural philosophy Aristotelian, 58, 73 and baptism, 129–33 of Boyle, 194–95 Genesis as based on, 190–94, 202–5 magnetism as essential to, 135 and Paracelsianism, 41–43, 131 The Nature and Propertie of Quicksilver (Baker), 79
A Needefull, New, and Necessarie Treatise of Chyrurgerie (Banister), 78
Neoplatonism, xvi, 57–58, 152, 174n.45
Neustein, Julius Alexandrinus von (Giulio Alessandrini), 7, 7n.13
New Atlantis (Bacon), 236
New Constitutions (Denmark, 1621), 44– 48
The Newe Jewell of Health (Baker), 79
Newman, William, 107–8, 201
Newton, Isaac, 141, 193, 194, 223
Opticks, 205
Principia, 205, 205n.57
New World, discovery of, 209–10
Nicéron, Jean-François, 223–24, 226–27, 237
Nichols, Stephen, 211n.18
Nicol, Robert, 89
Nicolas of Cusa, 168, 171, 185n.97
Nicolas of Lyra, 188n.3
nightmares, 230 900 Theses (Pico), xx, 151–53, 156, 161–62
Noah’s sons, 214n.32
Northern Renaissance, xvi
Nosologia (Petraeus), 48
Nymann, Jerome: De imaginatione oratio, 231
nymphs, xv
obstetrics, disputes about, 110–12
Oeser, Erhard, 160
Oldenburg, Henry, 194–95, 194n.21, 197– 98n.35
Old-vampirism, 137n.8
On Generation and Corruption (Aristotle), 46
On Obtaining Life from the Heavens (Ficino), 153, 157, 158, 159n.32, 161
On the Heavens (Aristotle), 46
On the invisible diseases (Paracelsus), 140
On the New Star (Kepler), 161
On the Three Languages (Wakefield), 189
On the World (Aristotle), 46
Opitz, Martin, 211
Poetische Wälder, 214–15
Oporinus, Johannes, 3, 5, 10, 17
Opticks (Newton), 205
Opus Paramirum (Paracelsus), 106
“Oration on the Dignity of Man” (Pico), 168, 173n.41, 180
Oresme, Nicole, 155
The Organon (Aristotle), 46
Orpheus, 58n.70
Ortus medicinae (Helmont), 144–45
Outlines of Pyrrhonism (Sextus Empiricus), 227
Pabst, G. W.: Paracelsus, xiii
Pagel, Walter, xiv, 133, 137, 142, 144
Pagnini, Sanctu, 188n.3
palingenesis, 62–63, 62nn.85–86
Paludanus, Johannes, 64n.94
Pantagruel. See Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel
Pantagrueline Prognostication pour l’an 1533 (Rabelais), 163, 166–67, 166n.13
Panthaleon, Dr., 13
Paracelsianism, xvii–xviii, 35–69 and Aristotelianism, xviii, 37, 42–43, 43nn.21–22, 45–46, 66 as chemical philosophy, 35–36 definitions of, 35–37, 66 and empiricism, 53–54, 62–63 vs. Galenism, 36, 37, 42–43, 66 Grell on, 39n.11, 40, 40n.15, 66, 67 vs. Helmontianism, 36n.1 as iatrochemistry, 35, 36, 38, 48, 66 as an ideology, 67 on life in cadavers, 50 and Lutheran orthodoxy, 39, 41–42, 41n.16, 46 and natural philosophy, 41–43, 131 (see also natural philosophy) and the New Constitutions, 44–48 and palingenesis, 62–63, 62nn.85–86 Pumfrey on, 35–36 and Rosecrucianism, 39–40, 39– 40nn.11–12, 40n.15 on salt, sulphur, and mercury (tria prima), 60 scientific/philosophical vs. religious, 40, 40n.15, 68, 117n.1, 130–31 in sixteenth- to seventeenth-century Denmark, 37–40, 39–40nn.11–12, 40n.15 at University of Copenhagen, 38–39, 41, 67, 69 See also Bartholin, Caspar; Worm, Ole
Paracelsus, 116 anti-Semitism of, 8–9n.19 at Basel University, xi–xii, 23 biographies of (see Disputations on the New Medicine of P. Paracelsus) Catholicism of, xi criticism of, 3 (see also Disputations on the New Medicine of P. Paracelsus) death of, xii influence of, xii–xvi, 19–20, 23–24 as the “Luther of medicine,” 17, 17n.39 medical iconoclasm of, xi–xii, xvii piety of, xv–xvi scientific vs. religious worldview of, xiii solitude of, 105 wanderings of, xii See also Paracelsus, works of
Paracelsus (film; Pabst), xiii
Paracelsus, works of Abendmahlsschriften, 117–22 Astronomia magna, xix, 117–18, 129–30, 129–30n.46 De Caduco Matricis, 94–95 De causis morborum invisibilium, 138–39 De genealogia Christi, 117–18, 120, 127, 131–32 De Matrice, 95, 108–9 Etliche Tractaten, 116 Die Grosse Wundarznei, x, xii, 21–22 Libellus de baptismate Christiano, 117–18, 123, 123n.24, 125 Meteorology, 190 On the invisible diseases, 140 Opus Paramirum, 106 Philosophia magna, 139 Prophecien und Weissagungen, 206 publication of, xiv–xv, 23, 117n.1 Three Books of Philosophy to the Athenians, 190 Vom tauf der Christen, 117–18, 129n.45 Vom tauf der Christen: De baptismate, 117–18, 123–24, 124n.25, 124nn.27–30, 128nn.41–42
Paradossi per Pratticare la Prospettiva senza saperla (Troili), 236
paradoxy, 232–37, 234n.24, 241, 244
Paré, Ambroise, 103
Parrhasius, 234, 241
Pathologia (Fernel), 78
Paul of Burgos, 188n.3
Payngk, Peter, 38, 65
Payne, Lynda, xviii
Pellican, Conrad, 188n.3
Pelling, Margaret, 73–74
Pen, John, 74
Penotus, 48
Perrault, François, 240n.39
Petraeus, Heinrich: Nosologia, 48
Pett, Sir Peter, 197, 198, 200
Pfitzer, Johannes, xvi, 210n.15
philolology, 211n.18
philosophers’ stone, 190
Philosophia magna (Paracelsus), 139
Philostratus: Life of Apollonius, 240
Physica generalis praecepta (C. Bartholin), 50
physicians. See Barber-Surgeons’ Company of London
physician’s gaze, xix, 95–96, 101–6
Physics (Aristotle), 56–57
Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, xv, 58n.70 Disputations against Judicial Astrology, xx, 152–56, 158–62 and Ficino, 153–61 Hebrew studied by, 188n.3 Heptaplus, 152, 153, 156–61 on materiality, 173, 173n.41, 186 on natural magic, 172–73 900 Theses, xx, 151–53, 156, 161–62 “Oration on the Dignity of Man,” 168, 173n.41, 180 and Savonarola, 160–61 on stars, physical effects of, xx wine metaphor used by, 180–81
Placket, Hewe, 92n.53
plague belief as cause of, 139, 144 metaphor of, xxi outbreaks of, 73, 75
Plato, 58, 60
Platter, Felix, 65
Plotinus, 154
Pococke, Edward, 197
Poetische Wälder (Opitz), 214–15
Poliziano, Angelo, 156
Pontano, Giovanni, 159
Popkin, Richard, 227
popular culture, diffusion of, 32n.48
Pörksen, Gunhild, xiv
Postel, Guillaume, 133n.55, 188n.3
Praetorius, Johannes, xv, xvi Blockes-Berges Verrichtung, 220–21 as populizer of marvels, 207, 208, 222 See also Daemonologia Rubinzalii
Pratensis, Johannes, 37
prestiges, 235, 237, 240, 244
preternatural beings, place/knowledge of, 210, 210n.13
Principia (Newton), 205, 205n.57
Prior and Posterior Analytics (Aristotle), 46
prisca doctrina, 188
prisca sapientia (original knowledge), 57–58, 58n.70
prisci theologi, 58n.70
Problematum philosophicorum (C. Bartholin), 50–51
procreation vs. creation, 106–9, 132
A Profitable Treatise of the Anatomie of Mans Body (Vicary), 77, 85
Prognostication Perpetuelle, 164
A Prooved Practice for all Young Chirurgians (Clowes), 78
Prophecien und Weissagungen (Paracelsus), 206
Protestant Reformation, xi, 228–30, 230n.15
psychoanalysis, 111n.78, 146, 224
Ptolemy: Tetrabiblos, 158
Pumfrey, Stephen, xvii, 35–36
Pyrrhonism, 227–28
quacks, 71, 72, 77–78, 87–92, 92n.53
Quatre livres des spectres (Le Loyer), 223–24
Quercetanus, 48, 62, 62n.85
Rabelais, François, xv, 165n.7 “Almanach pour l’an 1541,” 164, 167, 178–79, 179n.69 on astrology/almanacs, 163–67, 186 on conjunctions, eclipse, and comets, 165–66 as a doctor, 163–64, 178, 186 Hermeticism of, 165n.8 Neoplatonism of, 165n.8 Pantagrueline Prognostication pour l’an 1533, 163, 166–67, 166n.13 satirical almanacs of, 165–66 See also The Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel
Rabin, Sheila, xx, 183n.90
Randall, Catharine, 171n.32
Rausner, Georg, 13
Rawcliffe, Carole, 73n.4
Rawsworme, Valentine, 90–91
Read, John, 79, 86–88 A Most Excellent and Compendious Method of Curing Woundes in the Head, 88
reality and vision, 225–31
Recklau, Johann, 12n.27
Recklau, Markus, 12–14, 12n.27
Rees, Graham, 53n.54
Reformation. See Protestant Reformation
Reich, Wilhelm, 146n.48
Reichenbach, Carl, 137n.8
religion and science, 204, 204n.53
religious dissidence, 209–10
Resen, Hans P., 40n.15, 41–43, 43nn.20–22
resurrection, 50, 63
Reuchlin, Johannes, 188n.3
Rhetorica (Aristotle), 46
Rhodius, Ambrosius, 56n.62, 68–69
Riesengebirge, 207, 208, 214–15, 218–20, 219n.54, 220n.56
A Right Frutefull and Approoved Treatise for the Artificiall cure of that malady called in Latin struma, and in English, the evill, cured by Kinges and Queenes of England (Clowes), 78
Ripley, George: The Compound of Alchymie, 190
Ronchi, Vasco, 224n.2
Roper, Lyndal, 102–3
Rorty, Richard, 224
Rosecrucianism and Paracelsianism, 39–40, 39– 40nn.11–12, 40n.15 on prisci theologi, 58n.70 Ole Worm on, 39–40, 39n.11, 40n.15, 54–55
Rosenkrantz, Holger, 40n.15, 41
Rübezahl, xxi–xxii as a demon/ghost/monk/shapeshifter, 208–10, 210n.15, 214 in literature, 210 (see also Daemonologia Rubinzalii) as a marvel, 208 in the Riesengebirge, 207, 208 Widman on, 210
Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, 7, 141
Rudolph, Hartmut, xiv, xix, 130, 131
Ruland, Martin, 61n.78
sacramental seeing, 228
sacraments, 117–18n.2. See also baptism, Lord’s Supper
Sala, Angelus, 48
Salazar, Alonso de, 243
salt, sulphur, and mercury (tria prima), 60
Saturn, 144
Saulnier, V.L., 164
Savonarola, Girolamo, 160–61
Sawday, Jonathon, 75n.9, 178, 178n.68, 181n.86, 184n.95
The Sceptical Chymist (Boyle), 202, 203
Scheiner, Christoph, 237
Schepelern, H.D., 54n.56, 55, 55n.60
Schickfuss, Jakob, 211
Schott, Gaspar, 236, 240
Magia optica, 237
Schott, Heinz, xix–xx
Schwenckfeldt, Caspar von, 211
Schwenter, Daniel, 237
science and religion, 204, 204n.53
Scoggins, Dené, xx–xxi
Scot, Reginald, 242
secrets, 99, 101–2
secreta mulierum (women’s secrets), 94, 99, 101–4
self-portraiture, 234
semina Boyle on, 188, 202–5, 202n.48 Petrus Severinus on, 52, 52n.49, 58– 59, 68
Sennert, Daniel, 16, 47–48
Severinus, Anna, 47, 56n.62
Severinus, Frederik, 48, 55–57, 56n.62, 56n.65, 68–69
Severinus, Petrus, xvii–xviii, 37 Aristotelianism of, 57 Caspar Bartholin on, 46–49, 57 on disease, 68 on the elements, 60, 60n.76 Epistola Scripta Theophrasto Paracelso, 58n.70 and Erastus, 67, 191n.11 on experience/practical knowledge, 53 as an iatrochemist, 59, 64–65, 64n.94 Idea medicinae, 23, 60, 67, 68, 190– 91 Paracelsianism of, 55–59, 66, 67–68 on prisca sapientia, 57–58, 58n.70 on salt, sulphur, and mercury (tria prima), 60 on semina, 52n.49, 58–59, 68 on vital philosophy, 59 Ole Worm as influenced by, 55–60, 55n.60, 60n.76, 68–69
Sextus Empiricus: Outlines of Pyrrhonism, 227
Shackelford, Jole, xiv, xvii–xviii
Shakespeare, William: Macbeth, 223–24
Shumaker, Wayne, 159
Sigerist, Henry, xiv
signs allocation/reading of, 104–5, 115 of God, 168–72, 170nn.29–30, 171n.32, 173, 180, 185–86
Silesia, 208–9
Simpson, Nicholas, 74
Smith, Thomas, 197
Socrates, 86
Some Considerations touching the Style of the Holy Scriptures (Boyle), 195–97
soul, 141, 146
Spee, Friedrich, 243–44
sperm, 107–9, 108n.67
spleen, 143–44
Sprengel, Kurt, 35
still life, in art, 233–34
Sudhoff, Karl, xii–xiii, 11
suggestion, 146
The Summa Perfectionis (Geber), 201
surgeons, fraternity of, 72–73. See also Barber-Surgeons’ Company of London
Tabernamontanus, 48
Telle, Joachim, xiv
Temkin, Owsei, xiv
Tester, S.J., 153
Tetrabiblos (Ptolemy), 158
Der Teuffel selbst (Hocker), 221n.61
Thalhauser, Wolfgang, xvii, 14, 17, 21–22
Theatrum Diabolorum, 221n.61
Theophrastia Sancta movement, xiii–xiv
Third Reich, xiii
Thomas, Keith, 229
Thorndike, Lynn, xiv
Three Books of Philosophy to the Athenians (Paracelsus), 190
Thumm, Theodor, 239
Le tiers livre (Rabelais), 163, 165, 171, 173– 74, 178–80, 184
Topics (Aristotle), 46
Toxites, Michael, xii, 11, 11n.23
Tractatus de potestate ecclesiae coercendi daemones (Della Torre), 240–41
Tragus (Hieronymus Bock), 48
transmutation, 107
Tremellius, Immanuel, 188n.3
Trinity, 106
Trismegistus, Hermes, 58n.70
Trismosin, Solomon, 190
Troili, Giulio: Paradossi per Pratticare la Prospettiva senza saperla, 236
Tudor Reformation, 71. See also Barber-Surgeons’ Company of London
Tumulus pestis (Helmont), 142–43
“The Uncanny” (Freud), 103
Unheimliche (alienation), 103
United Company of Barber-Surgeons, 72. See also Barber-Surgeons’ Company of London
University of Copenhage anatomy at, 43–45 botany at, 43–45 chemical medicine at, 43–46 medical reforms at, 43–46 Paracelsianism at, 38–39, 41, 67, 69
Ussher, James, 194
uterus, 98–100
Valdés, Juan de, 133n.55
Valencia, Pedro de, 243n.49
Valentine, Basil, 48
vampires, 136, 137n.8
van Helmont, Johann Baptist, xx, 36n.1 on creation, 193–94 De magnetica vulnerum…curatione, 142 on gas and blas, 191–92 Hebrew knowledge of, 191–92 on imagination, 137, 142–47 influence of, 141 on the Jesuits, 142 Ortus medicinae, 144–45 Tumulus pestis, 142–43
Vesalius, Andreas, 48, 101
Vetter, Georg, 10–12, 11n.23, 17
Vicary, Thomas, 74, 77–78 A Profitable Treatise of the Anatomie of Mans Body, 77, 85
virtual reality, 225–26, 231–32, 234–35, 237–38
vision, xxii, 223–45 and anamorphosis, 235, 236, 237–38 anxieties about reliability of, 223–24, 224n.2, 235 and apparitions, 229 and artistic illusionism, 233–34 and computer graphics, 224–25 as constructed, 224, 228, 230–31 and demonology, xxii, 229, 231, 232, 238–45, 240n.39 the eye as an organ, 96–100, 96n.12 and hallucination, 231 imagination’s influence on, 230, 239 and magic, 226, 235–38 mental states’s influence on, 230 ocularcentrism, 224 and paradoxy, 232–35, 234n.24, 236–37, 241, 244 and perspective, 226 and the Protestant Reformation, 228–30, 230n.15 and Pyrrhonism, 227–28 and reality, 225–31 and revelation, 231 and sacramental seeing, xxii and virtual reality, 225–26, 231–32, 234–35, 237–38 and witchcraft, xxii, 226, 232, 238, 241–45 See also microcosma, seeing of
vital balsam, 50
vital philosophy, 59
Viterbensis, Johannes Annius: Commentaries on the Works of Various Authors who spoke of Antiquity, 213n.31
Vogt, Johann, 13
Vom tauf der Christen (Paracelsus), 117– 18, 129n.45
Vom tauf der Christen: De baptismate (Paracelsus), 117–18, 123–24, 124n.25, 124nn.27–30, 128nn.41–42
von Pfeten family, 12–13, 13n.28
Vossius, Dionysius, 188n.3, 199–200n.41
Vossius, Gerardus, 188n.3
Vossius, Isaac, 188n.3
Wagner, Georg, 25–26
Waite, Arthur Edward, xiv
Wakefield, Robert: On the Three Languages, 189
Walker, D.P., 57, 153, 154 Dialogicall discourses of spirits and divels, 239–40
Walton, Michael, xxi
Warhafftige Historien…So D. Iohannes Fausts (Widman), 210, 210n.15
Wars of the Roses (1455–85), 72
water spirits, 212
Wear, Andrew, 72n.2
Webster, Charles, xiv, xix
Webster, John, 242, 244
Weidner, Ursula, 31–32
Weinberg, Florence, 176, 176n.56, 181n.77
Westman, Robert, 161
Weyer, Johann, 211
Widemann, Karl, 30–33
Widman, Georg, xvi
Warhafftige Historien…So D. Iohannes Fausts, 210, 210n.15
Wilhelm of Bavaria, Prince, 28
Wilhelm of Württemberg, Prince, 28, 29
Williams, George Huntston, 133n.55
Williams, Gerhild, xxi–xxii
Wilson, Catherine, 226
wine metaphor, 180–81, 181nn.76–77
witchcraft and vision, xxii, 226, 232, 238, 241–45
witchhunts, 209–10, 238
Wittelsbach family, 13
Witzel, George, 133n.55
women. See microcosma, seeing of
Worm, Ole, 54–66 Aristotelianism of, 58–60, 66 Controversiarum medicarum exercitationes, 58–60 on disease, 59 on the elements, 60, 60n.76, 62 empiricism of, 65–66 Galenism of, 60, 63, 66 Grell on, 39n.11, 40n.15, 54–55, 55n.60, 57–59, 62–65, 65n.96 on Hartmann, 64, 64n.93 as an iatrochemist, 59–61, 63–65, 65n.96 influence of, 54 laboratory skills of, 60–61, 61n.78 Lutheranism of, 54n.56 on palingenesis, 62–63, 62nn.85–86 Paracelsian influence on, xvii–xviii, 42, 54–58, 62–67 on Rosecrucianism, 39–40, 39n.11, 40n.15, 54–55 on salt, sulphur, and mercury (tria prima), 60 and Frederik Severinus, 56–57, 56n.62, 56n.65 Petrus Severinus’s influence on, 55–60, 55n.60, 60n.76, 68–69 at University of Copenhagen, 41, 54, 66 on urine distillation, 60, 60n.77
Worm, William, 61
Yates, Frances, 57, 58n.70, 154, 184n.95
Zahn, Johannes, 237
Zapletal, Vladimir, 7n.14, 8n.17
Zeidner, Lisa, 111–12, 112n.87
Zeiler, Martin, 211
Zerotín, Johann III von, 7, 7n.15
Zerotín family, 7n.15
Zeuxis, 234, 241
Zurich Paracelsus Project, 117n.1
Zwinger, Theodor, xii
Zwingli, Huldrych, 9