ISBN10: 0792332547, ISBN13: 9780792332541, [publisher: Springer Verlag] Softcover 1st edition. 304 pages. 9.25x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.
[Exeter, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1995]

Springer Verlag, Date: 1995. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 304 pages. 9.25x6.00x0.75 inches. 1995. Springer Verlag ISBN 0792332547 9780792332541 [GB]

ISBN10: 0792332547, ISBN13: 9780792332541, [publisher: Springer Netherlands] Softcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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 challenge; equally challenging is the task of unraveling all those obscure and tantalizing discourses which it contains. This book, which marks the first full-scale study of Jabir ever to be published in the English language, takes up both challenges. The author begins by critically reexamining the historical foundations of the prevalent view that the Jabirian corpus is the work not of an 8th-century individual, but that of several generations of Shi'i authors belonging to the following century and later. Tentatively concluding that this view is problematic, the author, therefore, infers that its methodological implications are also problematic. Thus, developing its own methodological matrix, the book takes up the second challenge, namely that of a substantive analysis and explication of a Jabirian discourse, the Book of Stones. Here explicating Jabir's notions of substance and qualities, analyzing his ontological theory of language and unraveling the metaphysics of his Science of Balance, the author reconstructs the ...
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ISBN10: 0792332547, ISBN13: 9780792332541, [publisher: Springer] Softcover
[Bayonne, NJ, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1995]
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Springer 1995-02-28 1994 ed. Paperback New Size: 8x5x0; New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Dordrecht Springer 1995 1994 ed. Trade paperback New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 284 p. Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 158.

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[Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1995]
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Dordrecht Springer 1995 1994 ed. Trade paperback New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 284 p. Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 158.