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Langermann, Y. Tzvi, The Jews and the Sciences in the Middle Ages, Aldershot, Ashgate Variorum (Variorum Collected Studies Series, CS624), 1999, 346 pp.

Resum

The aim of this volume is to explore Jewish participation in the scientific enterprise of the Middle Ages. This is seen not only in terms of the contribution made by particular Jewish scholars, but of how Jews saw science and scientific knowledge (including matters of medicine and philosophy) in relation to their own religion and structure of belief. The opening essay, one of three specially prepared for this volume, presents such a study of science in the Jewish communities of the Iberian peninsula. The following section contains papers on particular thinkers, extending from Abbasid Baghdad to the medieval heritage of 16th-century Cracow; the final one focuses on texts and manuscripts, covering astronomy, mathematics and medicine.

Contents:
I: Langermann (1999), "Science in the Jewish communities ..."
II: Sa‘adya and the Sciences
III: Langermann (1993), "Some astrological themes in the ..."
IV: Maimonides and astronomy: some further reflections
V: Acceptance and devaluation: Nahmanides' attitude towards science
VI: Gersonides on the magnet and the heat of the sun
VII: The astronomy of Rabbi Moses Isserles
VIII: Some new medical manuscripts from Moscow
IX: The scientific writings of Mordekhai Finzi
X: The Hebrew astronomical codex MS Sasson 823

Matèries

Història de la ciència
Astronomia i astrologia
Medicina
Hebraisme

Notes

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