Magic into Science: The Story of Paracelsus (Used Hardcover) - Henry M. Pachter

One of the most curious, most contradictory and most consistently fascinating figures of the Renaissance was the physician and scientist Theophrastus, known as Paracelsus-"physician whose hand God had blesses."

He has greatly intrigued imaginative writers- giants like Goethe, Marlowe, and Browning, and in our own day, Thomas Mann.

He has claimed the attention of medical writers and historians like Osler and Sigerist, cultural historians like Ernst Cassirer and Hiram Haydn, great psychiatrists like Jung and Erich Fromm.

In popular legend and in poetry he has lived on as Faustus, patron saint of science but also symbol of man's blasphemous aspirations to rival God. His figure has acquired new prominence in our time for his extraordinary anticipations of modern psychiatric findings, and for his democratization of learning by writing and teaching in the vernacular and defying professional caste distinctions.

Condition: Hardcover is in very good condition with some wear to the original dust jacket.