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The Jewish Alchemists : A History and Source Book /
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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[1994]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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