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OverviewIn 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. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Raphael PataiPublisher: Princeton University Press Imprint: Princeton University Press Volume: 4472 Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.851kg ISBN: 9780691603124ISBN 10: 069160312 Pages: 634 Publication Date: 14 July 2014 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Language: English Table of ContentsReviewsWinner of the 1994 National Jewish Honor Book in Scholarship Raphael Patai seeks to break what he sees as the code of silence surrounding the history of Jewish alchemy, and his book represents the findings of years of intense research in this little-known subject... To the author's great credit he has marshaled a vast array of sources in an effort to reaffirm that which was proclaimed by both Jewish and especially non-Jewish alchemists until the rise of the 19th-century Jewish scholarship--namely, that the Jews played a seminal role in the history of alchemy. --John Efron, Forward Groundbreaking and highly original treatise... Before Patai's monumental study, the exact knowledge of the Jewish input into alchemy was minimal... [Raphael Patai] has brought the searching light of his extraordinary excavation skills into the unearthing of a dusty but now glimmering vein of the Jewish experience. --Arnold Ages, Midstream Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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