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- noun Plural form of
Paracelsian .
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Characteristic of the Paracelsians was their firm opposition to the dominant Aristotelian-Galenic tradition of the universities.
Alchemy 1968
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Characteristic of the Paracelsians was their firm opposition to the dominant Aristotelian-Galenic tradition of the universities.
ALCHEMY ALLEN G. DEBUS 1968
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Is it full of spirits which inhabit it, as the Paracelsians and Platonists hold, the higher the more noble, [3082] full of birds, or a mere vacuum to no purpose?
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The Paracelsians constantly called for a new observational approach to nature, and for them chemistry or alchemy seemed to be the best example of what this new science should be.
ALCHEMY ALLEN G. DEBUS 1968
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An important example may be found in Ger - hard Dorn's defense of the Paracelsians which he based on an analysis of the “Physics of Genesis” and the
ALCHEMY ALLEN G. DEBUS 1968
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Paracelsians or the empty shell of Aristotelianism.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas ROBERT H. KARGON 1968
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For a bibliography of Paracelsus and the later Paracelsians see
ALCHEMY ALLEN G. DEBUS 1968
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The Paracelsians were quick to offer an alchemical
ALCHEMY ALLEN G. DEBUS 1968
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The Paracelsians sought to interpret their world in terms of alchemy or chemistry.
ALCHEMY ALLEN G. DEBUS 1968
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The Paracelsians approached medicine in a similar fashion.
ALCHEMY ALLEN G. DEBUS 1968
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