Jewish Alchemists A History and Source Book

"Raphael Patai seeks to break what he sees as the code of silence surrounding the history of Jewish alchemy, and his book represents the findings of years of intense research in this little known subject....To the author's great credit he has marshaled a vast array of sources in an effort to reaffirm that which was proclaimed by both Jewish and especially non-Jewish alchemists until the rise of the nineteenth century-Jewish scholarship - namely, that the Jews played a seminal role in the history of alchemy.Patai, Raphael is the author of 'Jewish Alchemists A History and Source Book' with ISBN 9780691006420 and ISBN 0691006423.