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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 35. Chapters: Paracelsus, Bartolommeo Bandinelli, Inigo Lopez de Mendoza, 4th Duke of the Infantado, Gines de Mafra, Anne de Montmorency, Pargal brahim Pasha, Juan Luis Vives, Robert Maxwell, 5th Lord Maxwell, John Nevill, 3rd Baron Latimer, Osanna of Cattaro, William IV, Duke of Bavaria, Nicolaus Olahus, Anna Bijns, Olaus Petri, Antoinette de Bourbon, Sten Sture the Younger, Barthel Bruyn the Elder, Justus Jonas, Simon Grynaeus, Johann Pfeffinger, Nicolas Monardes, Agnolo Firenzuola, Clarice de' Medici, Girolamo Seripando, Wilhelm Gnapheus, Bernardo Tasso, Shimazu Tadayoshi, Eleonora Gonzaga, Duchess of Urbino, Anton Fugger, Henry Clifford, 1st Earl of Cumberland, Giovanni Domenico de Cupis, Maximilian Sforza, Lucas Cornelisz de Kock, Petrus Mosellanus, Tommaso Vincidor, Ambrosius Pelargus, Anthony Lorinthia Geriasarch, Henry Daubney, 1st Earl of Bridgewater, Takeda Nobutora, Kaspar Ursinus Velius, Alessandro Pasqualini, Marco Dente, Johann of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Louis de Bourbon de Vendome, Ippolita Maria Sforza, Matsudaira Shigeyoshi, Mizuno Tadamasa. Excerpt: Paracelsus (born Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, 11 November or 17 December 1493 - 24 September 1541) was a Swiss Renaissance physician, botanist, alchemist, astrologer, and general occultist. "Paracelsus," meaning "equal to or greater than Celsus," refers to the Roman encyclopedist Aulus Cornelius Celsus from the 1st century, known for his tract on medicine. He is also credited for giving zinc its name, calling it zincum, and is regarded as the first systematic botanist. Paracelsus was born and raised in the village of Einsiedeln in Switzerland. His father, Wilhelm Bombast von Hohenheim, was a Swabian chemist and physician; his mother was Swiss, she died presumably in his childhood. In 1502 the family moved to Villach, Carinthia where Paracel...