Names, natures, and things : the Alchemist Jābir ibn Ḥayyān and his Kitāb al-Aḥjār (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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Main Author:	Haq, Syed Nomanul
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Dordrecht : Springer, 1994.
Series:	Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 158.
Subjects:	Jābir ibn Ḥayyān. > Kitāb al-Aḥjār. Kitāb al-Aḥjār (Jābir ibn Ḥayyān) Alchemy > Early works to 1800. Alchemy. Electronic books. Early works.
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