The Summa Perfectionis of Pseudo-Geber

A Critical Edition, Translation, and Study
Erscheinungsjahr 1991
ISBN: 978-90-04-09464-2
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers

Buch, Englisch, Latin, Band 35, Gewicht: 1605 g

Reihe: Collection de Travaux de l'Académie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences

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'.

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Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Human- und Sozialwissenschaften
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

William R. Newman, Ph.D. (1986) in the History of Science, Harvard University, is Head Tutor, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University. His publications include various articles in international journals on Pseudo-Geber, the Summa Perfectionis and on late medieval alchemy.