The Jewish Alchemists : : A History and Source Book / / Raphael Patai.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
• VerfasserIn: Patai, Raphael,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 236
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (634 p.) :; 12 halftones, 16 line illustrations

In this monumental work, Raphael Patai opens up an entirely new field of cultural history by tracing Jewish alchemy from antiquity to the nineteenth century. Until now there has been little attention given to the significant role that Jews played in the field of alchemy. Here, drawing on an enormous range of previously unexplored sources, Patai reveals that Jews were major players in what was for centuries one of humanity's most compelling intellectual obsessions.Originally published in 1994.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- PART ONE: Prelude -- PART TWO: The Hellenistic Age -- PART THREE: The Early Arab World -- PART FOUR: The Eleventh to Thirteenth Centuries -- PART FIVE: The Fourteenth Century -- PART SIX: The Fifteenth Century -- PART SEVEN: The Sixteenth Century -- PART EIGHT: The Seventeenth Century -- PART NINE: The Eighteenth Century -- PART TEN: The Nineteenth Century -- CONCLUSION: A Profile of Jewish Alchemy -- APPENDIX: An Alchemical Vocabulary from Jerba -- NOTES -- INDEX