"As far back as the early 1500s, the pioneering Swiss alchemist Paracelsus was confidently stating our bodies 'are not derived from the heavenly bodies.' The stars 'have nothing to do' with us, he stressed: their material bequeaths no 'property' nor 'essence' to us."
"The dominant view, tracing back to Aristotle, had long assumed that the Earth and other celestial bodies weren't just separated by a chasm in space, but by distinctions in all other qualities too."
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