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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... words : " Traces of the connection of Jews with the sci- ence of Alchemy are very scanty in Hebrew literature . Not a single dis- tinguished adept is found who has left in a Hebrew form traces of his knowledge of the subject . There is ...
... words or names , often written in faultily executed Hebrew characters , or in inaccurate transliteration into Latin characters . Exam- ples of both will be presented in several chapters in this book . Turning now to the gentile view of ...
... words . They used these foreign terms either as loan words , without both- ering to explain their meaning , or else identified them as foreign words by first using a Hebrew word , and then adding , “ and in Arabic . . . ” or “ and in ...
... words , the inventor of the smith's craft.19 Tubal - Cain figures prominently in a book titled Uraltes Chymi- sches Werck ( Age - Old Chemical Work ) written by an otherwise un- known Jewish alchemist , who supposedly lived in the ...
... words of wind [ i.e. , nonsense ] . " It is possible that the name of Me - Zahav's granddaughter Mehetabel , which in the Greek transliteration had become Metebel or Metabeel , reminded the alchemists of the Greek term metabole ...