It was a time when Prague was full of scholars, artists and scientists, but also pretentious charlatans and out-and-out crooks. Many of them longed to create an artificial being, a homunculus. today we have no way of knowing whether the learned and respected Rabbi Low really succeeded, but while it may not have happened at all there is nothing to stop us believing that it might have done. Author: Lucy Seifert Hardcover ...Shrink