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Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- I Nicolo Leoniceno between the Arabo-Latin Tradition and the Renaissance of the Greek Commentators -- II Jean Fernel and His Christian Platonic Interpretation of Galen -- III Jacob Schegk on the Plastic Faculty and the Origin of Souls -- IV Cornelius Gemma and His Neoplatonic Reading of Hippocrates -- V Fortunio Liceti against Marsilio Ficino on the World-Soul and the Origin of Life -- VI Daniel Sennert on Living Atoms, Hylomorphism and Spontaneous Generation -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index.

The production of forgeries under the name of the Swiss physician Paracelsus (1493/94-1541) was an integral part of the diffusion of the Paracelsian movement in early modern Europe. Many of these texts were widely read and extremely influential. The inability of most readers of the time to distinguish the genuine from the fake amid the flood of publications contributed much to the emergence of Paracelsus' legendary image as the patron of alchemy and occult philosophy. Innovative studies on largely overlooked aspects of Paracelsianism along with an extensive catalogue of Paracelsian forgeries make this volume an essential resource for future studies. Contributors are Tobias Bulang, Dane T. Daniel, Charles D. Gunnoe, Jr., Hiro Hirai, Didier Kahn, Julian Paulus, Lawrence M. Principe, and Martin Žemla. Originally published as Special Issue of the journal Early Science and Medicine , volume 24 (2019), no. 5-6 (published February 2020), with a revised Introduction and a new Appendix by Julian Paulus, entitled "A Catalogue Raisonné of Pseudo-Paracelsian Writings: Texts Attributed to Paracelsus and Paracelsian Writings of Doubtful Authenticity," has been added