INDO-EUROPEAN ALCHEMY FIELD EXAM BIBLIOGRAPHY

for Keith Cantú

Examiner: David Gordon White

Balbir, Nalini. “Scènes d’alchimie dans la littérature jaina.” 1990. Journal of the
European Ayurveda Society 1: 149-64.

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vol. 2 (L’Alchimie syriaque), introduction, text and translation by Rubens Duval.
Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1893; reprint Osnabrück and Amsterdam: Otto Zeller
and Philo Press.

Cheak, Aaron, ed., Alchemical Traditions, from Antiquity to the Avant-Garde.

Melbourne: Numen Books, 2013.

Cort, John. "Twelve Chapters from The Guidebook to Various Pilgrimage Places, the
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Debus, Allen G. 1965. The English Paracelsans. New York: Watts. 13-48.

Dobbs, Betty Jo. 1991. The Janus Face of Genius: The Role of Alchemy in Newton’s
Thought. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press.

__________. 1990. Alchemical Death & Resurrection: The Significance of Alchemy in

the Age of Newton. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, pp. 1-34

Fynes, R. C. C. 2005. The Epitome of Queen Līlāvatī, 2 vols. Selected passages.

Garrett, Frances. 2009. “The Alchemy of Accomplishing Medicine (sman sgrub):

Situating the ‘Yuhok Heart Essence’.” In Journal of Indian Philosophy 37:3, pp.
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Hill, Donald R., “The Literature of Arabic Alchemy,” in M. J. L. Young, ed., Religion,
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Holmyard, Eric, Alchemy. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1968.

Jābir Ibn Ḥayyān, and Pierre Lory. Dix traités d’alchimie: les dix premiers traités du
Livre des soixante-dix. Arles: Actes Sud, 1996.

Kraus, Paul. Jabir ibn Hayyan: Contribution á l’étude des idées scientifiques dans
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Langermann, Y. Tzvi. 2018. “The Chapter on Rasāyana (Medications for Rejuvenation)
in Miʿrāj al-duʿāʾ, a Shiʿite Text from the 12th/18th Century.” In Intellectual
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Lai, Kim. 2013. “Iatrochemistry, Metaphysiology, Gnosis: Tibetan Alchemy in the

Kalacakra Tantra.” In Aaron Cheak, ed., Alchemical Traditions. From Antiquity to
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Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, Prehistory to A.D.
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__________. 1996. Jabir ibn Hayyan. Dix Traités d’alchimie. Paris: Sindbad.

Martelli, Matteo. 2013. The four books of Pseudo-Democritus. Leeds: Maney.

Matton, Sylvain, and Jean-Claude Margolin. 1993. Alchimie et Philosophie à La

Renaissance: Actes Du Colloque International de Tours, 4-7 Décembre 1991. De
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Natarajan, Kanchana. 2004. ‘‘‘Divine Semen’ and the Alchemical Conversion of

Iramatevar.” The Medieval History Journal 7.2, pp. 255-78.

Needham, Joseph, Ho Ping-yu, Lu Gwei-djen and Nathan Sivin. 1959, 2000. Science
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Obrist, Barbara. 2003. “Visualization in Medieval Alchemy.” Hyle – International Journal

for Philosophy of Chemistry, 9:2 (2003): 131-70.

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Roberts, Gareth G. 1994. The Mirror of Alchemy: Alchemical Ideas and Images in
Manuscripts and Books from Antiquity to the Seventeenth Century. London:
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_________. 1989. “Les carrés magiques indiens et l’histoire des idées en Asie.”
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White, David Gordon. “Hg Wells and Indo-European Myth (Living Waters),” forthcoming
in Daimons are Forever. Demonological Contacts and Exchanges in the Ancient
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White, David Gordon. The Alchemical Body: Siddha Traditions in Medieval India.
Paperback edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

White, David Gordon. unpublished. “Rasārṇavam” 18. 173-230.

Wujastyk, Dagmar. Well-Mannered Medicine: Medical Ethics and Etiquette in Classical

Ayurveda. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Zosimus, Theodor Abt, Theodor Abt, and Theodor Abt. The Book of Pictures = Muṣḥaf
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Encyclopedia of Islam, entry on Balinus (M. Plessner). On line at:

http://www.brillonline.nl.proxy.library.ucsb.edu:2048/entries/encyclopaedia-of-
islam-2/balinus-SIM_1146?s.num=0&s.q=balinus

Encyclopedia of Islam, entry on al-Baramika (W. Barthold and D. Sourdel): On line at:
http://www.brillonline.nl.proxy.library.ucsb.edu:2048/entries/encyclopaedia-of-
islam-2/al-baramika-COM_0099?s.num=0&s.q=al-baramika