Book of Definitions

Author:: Jabir ibn Ḥayyān
Form:: alchemical treatise
Approx. date:: c. 800 CE

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Kraus pp. 98-115.

Source context· Egyptian-Hebrew stream · Egypto-Chaldean cultural impulse

Stream: Egyptian-Hebrew
Cultural impulse: Egypto-Chaldean (3rd post-Atlantean cultural age)
Composed: c. 800 CE
Written down: Greco-Latin (4th post-Atlantean cultural age) manuscript epoch

1Book of Definitions
Lexical definition as a form of knowledge and its epistemological limits
5,203 words

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