Daniel BellingradtMay 11
A child is looking from a hole upon lots of destroyed books and asking What's this? "WAS IST DAS"? This is a 🔥 comment by the alchemist #Paracelsus about his battles with enemies. The destroyed medical books are the books of his enemies, and the boy looking is the audience judging the wrong authors
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As Paracelsus was pioneering in a lot of Renaissance sciences, especially medicine, this comment about to be destroyed "falsch artzenei" (wrong medicine) from his opponents, is a verdict. In 20 years time, the broadside featuring this detail predicts, Paracelsus will be seen and proved as correct.
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The boy is the future audience in this image. And the future will see and judge the many wrong opinions. This is how you mock your opponents, #academicchatter.
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The detail is from a larger print about Paracelsus, made in 1606 Nuremberg, and the title is Avreolvs Philippvs Theophrastvs Paracelsvs. A copy of this may be found in the ULB Dramstadt, his-Port-H-0151.
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#bookhistory #skystorians
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#WASISTDAS