Unheard of Curiosities Concerning the Talismanical Sculpture of the Persians, the Horoscope of the Patriarchs, & the Reading of the Stars

Jacques Gaffarel (1601–1681) was a French scholar and astrologer. He followed the family tradition of studying medicine, and then became a priest, but mainly developed his interests in the fields of natural history and Oriental occultism, gaining fluency in the Hebrew, Persian, and Arabic languages.