PARACELSE

by Alexandre Koyré

Qui était-il ce vagabond génial ? Un savant profond qui aurait, dans sa lutte conte la physique aristotélicienne et la médecine classique, posé les bases de la médecine expérimentale moderne ? Un médecin érudit génial, ou un charlatan ignorant, vendeur d'orviétan superstitieux, astrologue magicien, faiseur d'or, etc. Ou, au contraire, est-il " le médecin ", c'est-à-dire l'homme qui se penchant sur l'humanité souffrante aurait trouvé et formulé une conception nouvelle de la vie, de l'univers, de l'homme et de Dieu ?

104 pages, Paperback

First published May 19, 1998

About the author

Aleksandr Vladimirović Kojre, published as Alexandre Koyré was a philosopher and historian of science. He contributed to the development of the history of science in France and to its diffusion in the United States after the Second World War.

In the 1930's, Koyré began the research that made him one of the most eminent historians of twentieth century scientific thought, the first phase of which ended before the Second World War with the publication of the three volumes of Galilean Studies. Koiré became one of the protagonists of French historical epistemology, a new discipline that claimed to study the history of scientific thought as such and as a whole.