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