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The Devil's Doctor

Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science

by Philip Ball

A lively biography of Paracelsus for general readers by a science writer. Ball places his travels, quarrels and writings in the context of the Reformation, Renaissance magic and the emergence of experimental science.

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