May
11
/ 2020
To mimic the Creator and create life ex nihilo – almost from nothing – has been the ambition of some men, none more so than Philip Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim (1493 - 1541), a 16th-century doctor and alchemist, better known as Paracelsus, whose ego almost surpassed his desire to create life, as he deemed himself the equal match of his Creator. [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_original","fid":"73670","attributes":{"alt":"The Louvre copy of the lost portrait by Quentin Matsys, source of the iconographic tradition of \"fat\" Paracelsus (Public Domain)","class":"media-image","height":"700","style":"width: 525px; height: 700px;","typeof":"foaf:Image","width":"525"}}]] The Louvre copy of the lost portrait by Quentin Matsys, source of the iconographic tradition of "fat" Paracelsus ( Public Domain ) Call Him Homonculus Paracelsus’ script De Natura Rerum (1537) outlines his method for creating
