THE ARABIC HERMES - From Pagan Sage to Prophet of Science - Kevin Van Bladel (Hardback, Oxford University Press, 2009)

THE ARABIC HERMES - From Pagan Sage to Prophet of Science - Kevin Van Bladel (Hardback, Oxford University Press, 2009)THE ARABIC HERMES From Pagan Sage to Prophet of Science Kevin Van Bladel (Oxford University Press, 2009) Hardback. 278 pages This is the first major study devoted to the early Arabic reception and adaption of the figure of Hermes Trismegistus, the legendary Egyptian sage to whom were ascribed numerous works on astrology, alchemy, talismans, medicine, and philosophy. Before the more famous Renaissance European reception of the ancient Greek Hermetica,