Peder Soerensen

Peder Soerensen [ Peder Sørensen, Peder Soerenssen, Petrus Severinus, Peter Severinus.] (1542-1602) was a Danish physician, and one of the most significant followers of Paracelsus.

His works include the major treatise "Idea medicinae philosophicae" (Ideal of Philosophical Medicine) from 1571, asserting the superiority of the ideas of Paracelsus to those of Galen. [ [http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/paracelsus/paracelsus_4.html PARACELSUS: The Medical Chemistry of the Paracelsians ] ] Scholars including Jole Shackelford and Hiro Hirai ("Le concept de semences dans les théories de la matière à la Renaissance", 2005) have claimed that Soerensen was an important predecessor of both Johann Baptista von Helmont and Pierre Gassendi.

References

*Jole Shackelford (2004), "A Philosophical Path for Paracelsian Medicine: The Ideas, Intellectual Context, and Influence of Petrus Severinus (1540-1602)"

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