The Summa Perfectionis of Pseudo-Geber: A Critical Edition, Translation, and Study

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Brill Academic Publishers丛书名:Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae精装:785页正文语种:英语ISBN:9004094644条形码:9789004094642商品尺寸:24.1 x 16.5 x 6.1 cmASIN:9004094644商品描述Alchemy was a subject of no small controversy in the Middle Ages. To some scholastics, alchemy seemed to arrogate the power of divinity itself in its claim that man could replicate the products of nature by means of art; others viewed alchemy as a pure technology, unworthy of inclusion in a curriculum devoted to the study of "scientiae," The "Summa perfectionis" of Pseudo-Geber, written around the end of the 13th century as a defense of the art, became 'the Bible of the medieval alchemists, 'and was still being used as late as the 17th century. The present work contains a critical edition, annotated translation, and commentary of the "Summa,"