This Is A New Release Of The Original 1600 Edition.

The Latin works that are attributed to Geber have long been considered among the most important of medieval chemical treatises. Translated by Richard Russell in

The present work contains a critical edition, translation, and study of the "Summa perfectionis" of Pseudo-Geber, the most influential of the many texts of medi

This is a new release of the original 1928 edition.

Since the Enlightenment, alchemy has been viewed as a sort of antiscience, disparaged by many historians as a form of lunacy that impeded the development of rat