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"This is a very good book of a very unusual man, doing and thinking unusual things, all in an unusual time. The age (social context) of the man is what I found most interesting, and the first third or so of this book is excellent at bringing it to ..."
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Philippus 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...
"Somewhat disorganized as a work (it was selected and edited), often rambling in his answers with bold assertions blithely made (like that humans have no other option than to get off Earth and colonize the cosmos). The most interesting parts were o..."
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