== Found the Strasbourg university thesis on Jafar Sadiq! == 

 I have recently got hold of the Arabic translation of the french thesis by Strasbourg University. The English translation of the thesis is more compressed, however, and omits references to the claims made. In case, you wish to download the English version, here is the link: 
 http://shiaislamiclibrary.com/The_Great_Muslim_Scientist_and_Philosopher___ImamJafar_ibn_Muhammad_as_Sadiq_(as)-233 

 Anyway, at the end of the Arabic vetsion one can find the references. Here is the name of the French thesis as mentioned in page 449 of the book here: 

 http://narjes-library.blogspot.com/2012/09/blog-post_3646.html?m=1 

 Do not worry about the Arabic page numbers , just scroll to page 449 in the pdf. 

 Anyway, the last reference is this:  
 T. Fahd. Ga'far As - sdiq et la tradition scientifique Arabe, (Le Shicisem Imamite), Travaux du Centre d'etudes Suprieures spécialisé d'histoire des Régions. 

 Now it has probably been suggested earlier that the thesis is this one: 

 Fahd, Toufic, ed. Le Shi‘isme imamite, Colloque de Strasbourg 6-9 May 1968. Paris, 1970. 

 And I think it is not far-fetched that it actually happened. I found in a journal entry by Alessandro Cancian a mention that there was indeed a meeting between scholars mentioned in the book, including Henry Corbin, Musa Sadr, etc., in 1968 which is in line with what the book claims. This is the journal entry, go to p. 99,  

 https://www.academia.edu/6426301/Shiism 

 The thesis or book seems to be cited in various articles and areas. Google the name and they can be found. 

 Now I have two issues with the book. One is that even though it is a translation of a french thesis, there is no mention at all for many of the claims, except a few. An example is that the book claims in the medicine section that Imam Jafar Sadiq posseses profound medical knowledge which turns out to be common knowledge about the four humors. Even one of the claims in page 45 of the book is that sperm proceeds from every part of the body. The references to these claims at the bottom of the pages are Islamic Hadith books. 

 I suspect that the original thesis is merely an unbiased study of Shiism; however, this book mixes the French thesis along with other sources and sometimes no sources in order to infer that Jafar As-Sadiq had scientific foreknowledge of oxygen, General Relativity, Matter and Anti Matter, and so on. This becomes obvious by examining the contents of the book. 

 Thank you for reading, 
 Regards