Paracelsus, who was called the " Luther of Medicine ", describes these mystics sages as " persons who have been exalted ( verzueckt ) to God, and who have remained in that state of exaltation, and have not died (...) nobody knew what became of them, and yet they remained on the earth ".

Paracelsus thus identifies Earth as " the chaos of the gnomi ", i. e., the element of the gnomes, through which these spirits move unobstructed as fish do through water, or birds through air.

By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Paracelsus.

became the tri prima of the Swiss alchemist Paracelsus, who reasoned that Aristotle ’ s four element theory appeared in bodies as three principles.

Paracelsus uses Gnomi as a synonym of Pygmæi, and classifies them as earth elementals.

Among them were the astronomer Tycho Brahe, the chemical physician Paracelsus, the Irish philosopher Robert Boyle, and the English philosophers Thomas Browne and Isaac Newton.

This paradigm was highly influential in Medieval natural philosophy, and Paracelsus drew a range of mythological beings into this paradigm by identifying them as belonging to one of the four elemental types.

The structure of the comparison forced Pope to invent mythological forces to overlook the struggle, and so he borrowed sylphs from ludicrous ( to him ) alchemist Paracelsus and makes them the ghosts of vain women.

Outside the Italian Renaissance, yet another major current of esotericism was initiated by Paracelsus, who combined alchemical and astrological themes ( among others ) into a complex body of doctrines.

The more extreme liberal movements began to challenge the role of authority in medicine, as exemplified by Paracelsus ' symbolically burning the works of Avicenna and Galen at his medical school in Basle.

A gnome is a diminutive spirit in Renaissance magic and alchemy, first introduced by Paracelsus and later adopted by more recent authors including those of modern fantasy literature.

Other books found in the Harmony Society's library in Economy, include those by the following authors: Christoph Schütz, Gottfried Arnold, Justinus Kerner, Thomas Bromley, Jane Leade, Johann Scheible ( Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses ), Paracelsus, and Georg von Welling, among others.

Would you like to make a Mandragora, as powerful as the homunculus ( little man in a bottle ) so praised by Paracelsus?

In 1567, Swiss physician Paracelsus suggested unidentified substance in mined ore ( identified as radon gas in modern times ) caused a wasting disease in miners, and in England, in 1761, John Hill made the first direct link of cancer to chemical substances by noting that excessive use of snuff may cause nasal cancer.

The origins of the movement can be found in Medieval astrology and alchemy, such as the writings of Paracelsus, in Renaissance interests in Hermeticism, in 18th century mysticism, such as that of Emanuel Swedenborg, and in beliefs in animal magnetism espoused by Franz Mesmer.

The use of Paracelsus ' laudanum was introduced to Western medicine in 1527, when Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, better known by the name Paracelsus, returned from his wanderings in Arabia with a famous sword, within the pommel of which he kept " Stones of Immortality " compounded from opium thebaicum, citrus juice, and " quintessence of gold.

The element was probably named by the alchemist Paracelsus after the German word Zinke.

The first case of DID was thought to be described by Paracelsus in 1646.

Paracelsus is credited as the first to make mention of an unconscious aspect of cognition in his work Von den Krankheiten ( translates as " About illnesses ", 1567 ), and his clinical methodology created a cogent system that is regarded by some as the beginning of modern scientific psychology.

In alchemy in particular they were regarded as elementals, such as gnomes and sylphs, as described by Paracelsus.

* early 16th century: Paracelsus, an alchemist by trade, rejects occultism and pioneers the use of chemicals and minerals in medicine.

* Paracelsus article by Alan G. Hefner

As a physician of the early 16th century, Paracelsus held a natural affinity with the Hermetic, neoplatonic, and Pythagorean philosophies central to the Renaissance, a world-view exemplified by Marsilio Ficino and Pico della Mirandola.

Paracelsus viewed the universe as one coherent organism pervaded by a uniting lifegiving spirit, and this in its entirety, Man included, was ' God '.

Paracelsus supplemented and challenged this view with his beliefs that illness was the result of the body being attacked by outside agents.

The origin of the Paracelsian invented word spagyrici from the Greek: Spao, to tear open, + ageiro, to collect, is a neologism coined by Paracelsus to define his spagyric type of medical-orientated alchemy ; the origins of iatrochemistry no less, being first advanced by the Swiss physician.

* Franz Hartmann-The Life of Philippus Theophrastus Bombast of Hohenheim, better known by the name of Paracelsus, and the substance of his teachings.

Swiss alchemist, astrologer, and physician Paracelsus ( 1493 – 1541 ), on the other hand, rejected the idea that abnormal behaviors were caused by witches, demons, and spirits and suggested that people's mind and behaviors were influenced by the movements of the moon and stars.

* June 23 – Paracelsus burns books of Avicenna.

The archangel of fire is Michael, the angel is Aral, the ruler is Seraph, the king is Djin, and the fire elementals ( following Paracelsus ) are called salamanders.

The 16th-century Swiss alchemist Paracelsus ( Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim ) believed in the existence of alkahest, which he thought to be an undiscovered element from which all other elements ( earth, fire, water, air ) were simply derivative forms.

To Paracelsus, Vulcan was synonymous with both the alchemist / physician's manipulation of fire, heating and distilling of nature's properties for medicine, and the transforming power and creative potential locked within Man, the greater invisible Man or anthropos, slumbering within.

Albertus is also mentioned, along with Agrippa and Paracelsus, in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, in which his writings influence a young Victor Frankenstein.

In 1459 Pope Pius II endowed the University of Basel where such notables as Erasmus of Rotterdam and Paracelsus later taught.

Paracelsus ( 1493 – 1541 ), for example, rejected the 4-elemental theory, and with only a vague understanding of his chemicals and medicines formed a hybrid of alchemy and science in what was to be called iatrochemistry.

The archangel of air is Raphael, the angel is Chassan, the ruler is Aral, the king is Paralda, and the air elementals ( following Paracelsus ) are called sylphs.

The archangel of earth is Uriel, the angel is Phorlakh, the ruler is Kerub, the king is Ghob, and the earth elementals ( following Paracelsus ) are called gnomes.

A similar figure was the Swiss magician known as Paracelsus ( 1493 – 1541 ), who published Of the Supreme Mysteries of Nature in which he emphasised the distinction between good and bad magic.

Galenism's final defeat came from a combination of the negativism of Paracelsus and the constructivism of the Italian Renaissance anatomists, such as Vesalius in the 16th century.

The word comes from Renaissance Latin gnomus, which first appears in the works of 16th Century Swiss alchemist Paracelsus.

Alternatively, the term may be an original invention of Paracelsus.

The result is a sweeter spirit, and one that may have possessed additional analgesic / intoxicating effects-see Paracelsus.

" The name " Paracelsus " was a pseudonym signifying him the equal or better of Aulus Cornelius Celsus, whose text, which described the use of opium or a similar preparation, had recently been translated and reintroduced to medieval Europe.

The Canon of Medicine, the standard medical textbook that Paracelsus burned in a public bonfire three weeks after being appointed professor at the University of Basel, also described the use of opium, though many Latin translations were of poor quality.

Laudanum was originally the sixteenth-century term for a medicine associated with a particular physician that was widely well-regarded, but became standardized as " tincture of opium ," a solution of opium in ethanol, which Paracelsus has been credited with developing.