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Leiden/Boston: Brill Publishing, 1999. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 418 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. "If he had lived among the Greeks, he would now be numbered among the stars." So wrote Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in his epitaph for Francis Mercury van Helmont. Leibniz was not the only contemporary to admire and respect van Helmont, but although famous in his own day, he has been virtually ignored by modern historians. Yet his views influenced Leibniz, contributed to the development of modern science, and fostered the kind of ecumenicalism that made the concept of toleration conceivable. The progressive nature of van Helmont's thought was based on his deep commitment to the esoteric doctrines of the Lurianic Kabbalah. With his friend Christian Knorr von Rosenroth, van Helmont edited the Kabbala Denudata (1677-1684), the largest collection of Lurianic Kabbalistic texts available to Christians up to that time. Because the subject matter of…
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The Impact of the Kabbalah in the Seventeenth Century: The Life and Thought of Francis Mercury Van Helmont (1614-1698) Hardcover - 1999
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- Title The Impact of the Kabbalah in the Seventeenth Century: The Life and Thought of Francis Mercury Van Helmont (1614-1698)
- Author Allison P. Coudert
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 418
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Brill, Leiden
- Date July 1999
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9789004098442 / 9004098445
- Weight 2.06 lbs (0.93 kg)
- Dimensions 9.62 x 6.54 x 1.25 in (24.43 x 16.61 x 3.18 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 17th Century
- Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
- Religious Orientation: Jewish
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98041716
- Dewey Decimal Code 135.470
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Brill Publishing, 1999. 1. Hardcover. Very Good. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket; Hardcover; Dust jacket is clean and intact with no tears, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Light wear to the boards; The textblock edges are unblemished; The endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium Format (8.5" - 9.75" tall); 2.1 lbs; Light blue dust jacket with title in black lettering over light blue cloth-covered boards; 1999, Brill Publishing; 418 pages; "The Impact of the Kabbalah in the 17th Century: The Life and Thought of Francis Mercury Van Helmot, 1614-1698 (Brill's Series in Jewish Studies, 9)," by Allison P Coudert.
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