Look at the texts attributed to Jabir called the Book of Monk, translated from Arabic to French to English in 1935 and answer the following 3 questions:
-What procedure does the Book of Monk describe and what does it reveal about the scientific culture of the medieval Islamic Caliphates?
-Does this text show that Jabir and the monk were mystical medieval alchemists or precursors to modern science as Jim Al-Khalili aruges? Is it possible they were both?
-Jabir was later translated in the West as Geber. Answer one of the following:
- Does the translator of the Book of Monk make word choices that make the monk’s “science” seem medieval or modern, or both?
- Jabir was translated into English in the late 17th century — the era of Isaac Newton. Why would have the English been interested in the work of a medieval alchemist at that time?
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