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    6 February 2023

    • curprev 22:0522:05, 6 February 2023Ssstephen talk contribs 895 bytes +895 Created page with "I am reading this via [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sby1vW6TVpM Justin Sledge's video essay about it]. It is a translation of an Arabic text by Khalid ibn Yazid (maybe, if he was real) and has some really interesting interpretations of the original text (ie lying). For example it traces a genealogy of alchemy that mostly ignores the Arabic tradition and makes it sound like it was passed from pagan scholars to christian ones. Corrupt or untranslated Arabic words late..."