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Ibid., 178.
254
Patai, Jewish Alchemists, 3.
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Elizabeth H. Oakes. «Encyclopedia of World Scientists» (New York: Infobase Learning, 2007): 485.
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Theodore Vrettos. «Alexandria: City of the Western Mind» (New York: The Free Press, 2001): 163.
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Patai, Jewish Alchemists, 69–70.
258
Ibid., 66.
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R. J. Forbes. «Short History of the Art of Distillation» (Leiden: EJ Brill, 1948): 23.
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McKenzie, Architecture of Alexandria and Egypt, 209.
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