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Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim—more commonly known by the name Paracelsus—was one of the most colorful figures of the 16th century. A physician who cared nothing for the medical establishment, he burned medical textbooks at the University of Basel and developed his own philosophy of medicine rooted in the idea that all cures were found in Nature, not in the works of dead physicians. Paracelsus’s own writings show a world in which the stars could cause sickness, poison could cure, and the body was governed by an internal alchemist that could turn bread and meat into flesh and blood.  

In this lecture, practicing alchemist Brian Cotnoir joins rare book librarian Elisabeth Brander to delve into the life and work of this fascinating figure. They will illuminate Paracelsus’s world by pairing the lecture with a viewing of 16th and 17th-century editions of Paracelsian texts including illustrated prophecies, the pseudo-Paracelsian Archidoxa, and the 1599 printed edition of the gorgeous alchemical text The Splendor Solis with hand-colored-illustrations.