The Chemical Philosophy : Paracelsian Science and Medicine in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Rev. ed)

Debus had written several book before about Paracelsus (1493-1841), his followers, and the impact of his writing and philosophy on science and medicine over the following centuries.

For his 1977 study, published by Science History Publications, he draws on those and other sources to provide a view of what their system looked like to them, rather th