Erastus, Thomas

Erastus, Thomas. Disputationum de medicina nova Philippi Paracelsi (Basel Petrus Perna, 1572). 

Erastus, Thomas. Fxplicatio quaestionis famosae illius, utrum ex metallis ignobilioribus aurum verum icnaturale arte conflaripossit. Appendix to Disputationes de nova Philippi Paracelsimedicina. Basel Petrus Perna, 1572. 

Gunnoe, Charles D. "Thomas Erastus and his circle of anti-Paracelsians." In Analecta Paracelsica Studien zum Nachleben Theophrast von Hohenheims im deutschen Kulturgebiet derfru hen Neuzeit, ed. Joachim Telle. Stuttgart Steiner, 1974. 

Perhaps he, the scribe, or rhe transcript of the Annals mistook Erasmus for Thomas Erastus, one of Paracelsus great opponents. 

Thomas Erastus, Explicatio quaestionisfamosaeillius, utrum ex metallis ignobilioribus aurum verum naturale arte conflari possit, appendix to Disputationum demedicina nova, 63—64. 

Thomas Erastus, Epistola de natura, materia, ortuatque usu lapidis sabulosi, qui inpalatinatu ad Rhenum reperitur, printed as an appendix to his Disputationum de nova Pbittipi Paracelsi medicina (Basel Petrus Perna, 1572), 129. 

Gunnoe, Charles D., Jr. Thomas Erastus and his Circle of Anti-Paracelsians, Joachim Telle, ed., Analecta Paracelsica (Stuttgart Franz Steiner, 1994), pp. 127—148. 

Thomas Erastus, Explicatio quaestionis famosae illius utrum ex netallis ignobilioribus aurum verum natumle arte conflari possit p. 63 (appendix to Disputationes de nova Philippi Paracelsi medicina... 

This was already the case in the sixteenth century, as we can see from the attack on Paracelsus mounted by Thomas Erastus and the defence put forward by Richard Bostocke. Both writers devoted much space to judging the agreement or disagreement of Paracelsus s doctrines with the creation story. A particular point at issue was whether Paracelsus s belief in prime matter and the tria prima contradicted the first words of the Bible, In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth (Genesis 1.1). Erastus held ... 

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