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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... things he states that while " Solomon wrote only one work about the seven talismans [ flasks ] , several commentaries on it were composed in different periods , to explain the things which this work contained ; but in these commentaries ...
... things , but the most important thing [ namely , the transmutation of base metals into gold ] is still wrapped in darkness , and will remain so until the coming of Elias Ar- tista . " 59 Isaiah . The prophet Isaiah ranks next to Elijah ...
... a Greek technical treatise says , " It is this about which Moses , the divine prophet , speaks in his Chemistry [ the Chemistry of Moses , see below ] : placing all things into a small glass ball , cook it until 30 CHAPTER TWO.
... things known to them , expressed himself thus : " It is not befitting to those of our race , originating in one single species , that we should be reproached for our books , and that imprecations should be hurled at our heads . Con ...
... things in writing . . . . The Jews alone have attained a knowledge of its practice , and also have de- scribed and exposed these things in a secret language . This is how we find that Theophilus son of Theogenes has spoken of all the ...