The Jewish Alchemists: A History and Source BookPrinceton University Press, 2014 M07 14 - 634 páginas 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. |
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... earth From Abraham Eleazar , Uraltes Chymisches Werck ( Erfurt , 1735 ) , part 1 , P 36 247 17 3 Alchemical vessel From Abraham Eleazar , Uraltes Chymisches Werck ( Erfurt , 1735 ) , part 1 , p 30 248 17 4 The Python , from Abraham ...
... earth on the other . Just as a seed germinates and with time becomes a full - grown tree , and just as the human embryo grows in its mother's womb into a fully formed child , so in the earth ores and metals were believed to develop from ...
... earth , the earth of life , philosoph- ical mercury , radical humidity , and spirit.1 In later ages Adam became not only a product of primordial divine alchemy but the first recipient from God of the secrets of the Great Art , which ...
... earth and brooded over the waters . " It is through this spirit that the philosophers invented the seven liberal arts , and thereby gained their riches.10 Ben Jonson ( 1572-1637 ) was acquainted with a tradition of this kind , and says ...
... earth , and the art of working them , and bracelets and ornaments , and the use of precious stones , and all coloring tinctures . " Other angels taught them how to resolve enchantments , how to read the signs of the stars , astrol- ogy ...