Allen G. Debus - Books

Books

  • The English Paracelsians (Oldbourne Press : History of science library, 1965)
  • Editor, World Who's Who in Science (A. N. Marquis, 1968)
  • The chemical dream of the Renaissance (Heffer, 1968 : reprinted Bobbs-Merrill, 1968)
  • Science and education in the seventeenth century: The Webster-Ward debate (Macdonald, History of science library, primary sources, 1970)
  • Editor, Medicine in Seventeenth Century England (University of California Press, 1974)
  • The chemical philosophy: Paracelsian science and medicine in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (1977, 2nd ed., 2002)
  • Man and nature in the Renaissance (Cambridge, 1978)
  • Chemistry, Alchemy and the New Philosophy, 1550-1770: Studies in the History of Science and Medicine (Variorum Reprints, 1987)
  • Co-editor with Ingrid Merkel, Hermeticism and the Renaissance: Intellectual History and the Occult in Early Modern Europe (Folger Books, 1988)
  • Co-authored with Brian A. L. Rust, The Complete Entertainment Discography: From 1897-1942 (Roots of Jazz) (Arlington House, 1982; 2nd ed., Da Capo, 1989)
  • The French Paracelsians, The Chemical Challenge to Medical and Scientific Tradition in Early Modern France (Cambridge, 1991)
  • Co-editor with Michael Thomson Walton, Reading the Book of Nature: The Other Side of the Scientific Revolution (Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies) (Thomas Jefferson University Press, 1998)
  • Chemistry and Medical Debate: van Helmout to Boerhaave (Science History Publications, 2001)
  • Editor, Alchemy and Early Modern Chemistry: Papers from Ambix (Jeremy Mills, 2004)
  • The Chemical Promise: Experiment And Mysticism in the Chemical Philosophy, 1550-1800 : Selected Essays of Allen G. Debus (2006)


Debus also reprinted 16th and 17th century texts by Elias Ashmote, John Dee and Robert Fludd.
He also programmed and prepared notes for CDs released by Archeophone Records.

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