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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... Medicine , Bethesda , Md . , and its curator of rare books , Peter Krivatsy ; the library of the New York Academy of Medicine ; the New York Public Library , the Head of its Jewish Division , Leonard Gold , and the Head of its Oriental ...
... medicine functioned not merely as sister sciences , but as identical activities : the healing of a sick person was understood to be the transmutation of a sick body into a healthy one , and the transmutation of copper into gold was ...
... medicine , that is , the elixir which gave long life , and which is the most sublime part of the Hermetic philosophy . Still , Noah may have passed it on to his descendants , who cultivated it in Egypt.24 Thus Du Fresnoy manages to ...
... medicine , but most generally described 28 Jacob Of all the biblical figures , the one in whose life a stone played a crucial role was Jacob The story in Genesis tells about his dream of the heavenly ladder which he dreamt in Beth el ...
... medicine , instruments , utensils , weapons , the hieroglyphic characters , and the di- vision of Egypt into thirty - six districts , of which he allotted one to the priests . Therefore , he says , there is nothing surprising in the ...