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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... wrote : “ The Jews were much too knowledgeable about the real gold - scales to let themselves be fooled by ' the philosophers ' stone . ' Only later times in- vented [ fingierte ] a writing by Saadia and foisted another on Maimoni- des ...
... wrote of Hellenistic alchemy : “ The oldest of the schools was Jewish . The Israel- ites fleeing Roman domination after the fall of Jerusalem had come in large numbers to find refuge in Egypt , by a curious return of destiny . . . They ...
... wrote in that language were immune to the alchemical virus . The survival of a manuscript is always a matter of chance , and the Yiddish alchemical writings may simply have been lost . It is also possible that if there were alchemists ...
... wrote most of their alchemical works in Hebrew characters , is probably wrong , and will have to be corrected by locating , evaluating , and publishing Jewish alchemical writings in other languages — a truly Herculean task . Another ...
... wrote in his commentary on the alleged Revelation of Hermes that there is an " indestructible essence , ” an una res , which is the " perfect equation of the elements , " the subject of the Art ( namely , of alchemy ) revealed from ...