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Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has become the go-to pocket deity of 2026: Housed in every tablet in the world, a god of knowledge who does not so much teach as he does supplant knowledge, ...

Black madonna: a country doctor -- The metal makers: learning the arts -- The universal scholar: a Renaissance education -- The staff and the snake: healing in the early renaissance -- Intellectual ...

One has to admire Philip Ball's courageous undertaking in writing a biography of Paracelsus, arguably the most controversial medical writer in the Renaissance. Not only are the works of Paracelsus' ...

If one really wants to understand the contradictions and "intellectual ferment" of the 16th century, says Ball, one should look not at Luther or Copernicus, but at the much-maligned Paracelsus. Born ...

Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim, better known as Paracelsus, was born in 1493 in Switzerland. He was a physician and alchemist well ahead of his time in his thinking, who urged his students to use ...