Ok, without looking it up, who knows what Paracelsus‘ idea was?

[Ralphie]

Hint. He was a medieval alchemist. He was also Swiss, a physician, astrologer, and apparently a renaissance man. 
 

Hmmm, were medieval and Renaissance coexisting?  So many questions!

[late]

17 minutes ago, RalphWaldoMooseworth said:

 

Hmmm, were medieval and Renaissance coexisting?  So many questions!

Yes, of course. The Renaissance was the first stirrings of capitalism that would later evolve into the Modern world.

I had to look him up, interesting.

[Zephyr]

Was his idea rolling rocks uphill really sucks?

Or flying too close to the sun really sucks?

Now that I have exhausted my knowlesge of really old greek dudes, I'm tappin out.

[Kzoo]

When I told my HS history teacher that none of this is history crap was important when we got out in the real world - this is what I was talking about.

#nationahonorsocietyfailure

[Razors Edge]

6 minutes ago, Kzoo said:

When I told my HS history teacher that none of this is history crap was important when we got out in the real world - this is what I was talking about.

#nationahonorsocietyfailure

#YouAreNoJames

[Kzoo]

3 minutes ago, Razors Edge said:

#YouAreNoJames

You are right - for once.

 

[maddmaxx]

I'm not going to answer.  I'll just sit back and observe what others say.

[jsharr]

Swiss Alchemist you say?  Obviously it was to turn chocolate into gold.