by Paracelso · Ediciones Obelisco S.L. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788477201946
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«Libro de las ninfas, los silfos, los pigmeos, las salamandras y los demás espíritus» is Paracelsus's treatise, in paperback (Ediciones Obelisco).
In this treatise Paracelsus describes the creatures that, according to hermetic cosmology, populate the four elements: nymphs in water, sylphs in air, pygmies in earth and salamanders in fire. He presents them as beings intermediate between the material and the spiritual, and sets out their customs and their relationship with humans within a worldview typical of the Renaissance.
The cover indicates it is the 3rd edition. The publication is dated May 1991 and the text is in Spanish.
Recommended for readers interested in hermetic philosophy, alchemy and Renaissance thought.
Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim, known as Paracelsus, was a Swiss physician, alchemist, lay theologian, and philosopher of the German Renaissance.
