The works of Geber / Englished by Richard Russell, 1678.

  • Jābir ibn Ḥayyān.
Date:
1928
  • Books

About this work

Publication/Creation

London : Dent; New York : Dutton, 1928.

Physical description

xl, 264 pages including frontispiece (facsim.) illustrations ; 20 cm

Edition

A new edition with introduction /

Notes

The English translation was published in 1678, and is here reprinted with the addition of figures taken from the Latin edition published at Berne in 1545"--Editor's preface
Contains reproductions of the title-pages of the Latin edition of 1545 and of the English translation of 1678

Contents

Of the investigation or search of perfection.--Of the sum of perfection, or of the perfect magistery.--Of the invention of verity, or perfection.--Of furnaces, &c. with a recapitulation of the author's experiments.

Bibliographic information

Bibliography: p. xxii-xxiii

Type/Technique

Where to find it

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    History of Medicine
    AHA.AA2
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