Aquarium of Vulcan

     An index to essays (2010-2024) and short posts on the late Renaissance humanist, Christian mystic, Hermetic philosopher, Paracelsian ph...

Its only recently that a clearer assessment of the Belgian chemist and scientist, physician and alchemystical philosopher Jan Bapti...

Today on the 270th anniversary of the birth of  Johann Goethe (August 28th 1749-1832) its exciting to reveal and elaborate upon the...

The physician-philosopher Thomas Browne (1605-82) can truly be said to have achieved worldwide fame with his inclusion in the Japanese ...

The Swiss physician and alchemist Paracelsus (1493-1541) has a fascinating, yet little explored relationship to the 17th century ph...