{"product_id":"the-devils-doctor-paracelsus-and-the-world-of-renaissance-magic-and-science","title":"The Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science","description":"\u003cp\u003ePhilippus 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 Devils Doctorone that emerges only by entering into Paracelsuss 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44946638438453,"sku":"ByrdShop_0374229791","price":35.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780374229795.jpg?v=1769958409","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-devils-doctor-paracelsus-and-the-world-of-renaissance-magic-and-science","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}