Names, Natures and Things The Alchemist Jābir ibn Hayyān and his Kitāb al-Ahjār (Book of Stones)
Jabir ibn Hayyan, for a long time the reigning alchemical authority both in Islam and the Latin West, has exercised numerous generations of scholars. To be sure, it is not only the vexed question of the historical authorship and dating of the grand corpus Jabirianum which poses a serious scholarly c...
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| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1994, 1994
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1994 |
| Series: | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
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Table of Contents:
- Names, Natures and Things
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Doctrinal Context of J?bir’s Kit?b Al-Ahj?r: Substance, Qualities and the Science of Balance
- 3. Names, Natures and Things: a Prefatory Note on the Central Theme of the Kit?b Al-Ahj?r
- The Text of the Kit?b Al-Ahj?r
- 4. Preliminary Observations
- 5. A Critical Edition of Select Text of the Kit?b Al-Ahj?r
- 6. Translation, Commentary and Textual Notes
- Appendices
- II Modern Editions and Translations of Jabirian Texts
- Bibliographic Abbreviations
- Index of Jabirian Works Cited
- Index of Proper Names