
- 634 pages
- English
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About this book
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.
Originally published in 1994.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Part One: Prelude
- Part Two: The Hellenistic Age
- Part Three: The Early Arab World
- Part Four: The Eleventh to Thirteenth Centuries
- Part Five: The Fourteenth Century
- Part Six: The Fifteenth Century
- Part Seven: The Sixteenth Century
- Part Eight: The Seventeenth Century
- Part Nine: The Eighteenth Century
- Part Ten: The Nineteenth Century
- Conclusion A Profile of Jewish Alchemy
- Appendix An Alchemical Vocabulary from Jerba