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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton Legacy Library ; 236Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©1994Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (634 p.) : 12 halftones, 16 line illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691603124
  • 9781400863662
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 540.11
LOC classification:
  • QD24.A2 -- P38 1994eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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