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Basle, Printing, and the Early Modern Intellectual World

This is the most complex, and certainly the heaviest, work I have ever been called upon to review. Neither its punning title: Theophrastus and Galen – Celsus and Paracelsus nor its more informative subtitle, Medicine, natural philosophy and church reform in Basle printing down to the Thirty Years War, gives a proper idea of the riches it contains. Even as a catalogue of imprints, it extends beyond its ostensible chronological limits to include some works printed outside Basle or well after the ending of the Thirty Years War in 1648. It is a work of great learning (and no little humour) that should stand on the shelves of any research library worth the name, yet its full merits can be gauged only by serendipity or constant familiarity rather than by a consultation to find details of a specific printed book. It is a reference work, yet one that oversteps the boundaries of the genre; it is a book catalogue, yet one that omits to record the number of pages in each volume; and it is a study of printing that reveals almost as much about non-printed material. It has a restricted focus, a chronological list of printed books, yet the way it is conceived makes it nothing less than a study of the learned medical, scientific and religious world of the Renaissance and Reformation as seen through and in Basle, one of its most important centres.