The Book of Meteors; Fourth Book of Paramirum on the Matrix

Name: Das Buch Meteororum
Author: Paracelsus, Theophrastus

Das Buch Meteororum

German

Paracelsus, Theophrastus c. 1530-1531 · published 1566

113 pages

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First Complete Translation

Only partial translations or excerpts exist. This is the first complete English translation.

The 1566 edition contains two distinct works: 'Das Buch Meteororum' and the fourth book of the 'Opus Paramirum' (De Matrice). While the 'De Matrice' has been translated from the original German (notably by C. Lilian Temkin in 1941 and Andrew Weeks in 2008), the 'Book of Meteors' has only been translated into English from a Latin intermediary (by A.E. Waite in 1894). No English translation of the original German text of the 'Meteors' exists, and the 1566 volume as a whole has never been published in a complete English translation from the source language.

Related translations found:

The Book Concerning Meteors (in The Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Paracelsus), trans. Arthur Edward Waite (1894) [complete] source

The Diseases of Women (in Four Treatises of Theophrastus von Hohenheim called Paracelsus), trans. C. Lilian Temkin (1941) [complete]

Opus Paramirum (in Paracelsus: Essential Theoretical Writings), trans. Andrew Weeks (2008) [complete]

The Book of Meteors, trans. Charles L. Lillard (likely reprinting Waite) (1993)

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Step into a world where rain is the distilled fruit of the stars and the human body is a sacred laboratory of divine alchemy. Paracelsus shatters traditional medicine to reveal how the 'Light of Nature' governs everything from the mechanics of summer storms to the hidden 'Monarchy' of the female womb.