Kitāb mafātīḥ al-raḥmah wa-asrār al-ḥikmah
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Author
Contributions
- Zosimos, of Panopolis - Contributor
Publication
, No place, unknown, or undetermined
Language
Arabic
Word Count
66,250 words, Guess
Page Count
265 pages
Identifiers
- Library of Congress Control Number2008427048
- Open LibraryOL24802177M
Classifications
- LCCQD25 .T847 1700z
Alternate Titles
- Mafātīḥ al-ḥikmah.
Description
The ms. is in two parts. Part I, or Introduction by Ṭughrāʼī, and Part II, "From keys of wisdom" is by the Egyptian chemist Zosimos, translated into Arabic by al-Ṭughrāʼī. Part I is written in the form of lectures and is divided into 5 chapters: The science and its materials; Mixing and its way; Fire and its nature; Balances (of properties); Metals and plants and how to recognize them. Part II entitled "From keys of wisdom" is divided into 7 sections: Definitions and symbols; Promotion and what can be promoted; Distillation, what cannot be distilled; Conversions and synthesis; Degradation and decomposition; How the chemist deduced these facts; and, The stages of work. It is hard to consider this part an accurate translation of Zosimos book "Keys of the craft". It often contains references that are anachoronistic or that are not found in Zosimos' text.
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