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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
Fitxa de l'editor: http:/​/​www.ashgate.com/​default.aspx?page=637​&calcTi ...
What are the images?

The small images on the decorative ribbon correspond, from left to right, to the following documents: 1. James II orders the settlement of neighborhood disputes over an estate of the royal doctor Arnau de Vilanova in the city of Valencia. 1298 (ACA); 2. Contract between Guglielmo Neri de Santo Martino, a surgeon from Pisa, and the physician-surgeon from Majorca Pere Saflor, bachelor of medicine, to practise medicine and surgery under the latter’s direction, 1356 (ACM); 3. Valuation of the workshop of Guillem Metge, an apothecary from Barcelona, made by the apothecaries Miquel Tosell, Berenguer Duran and Vicenç Bonanat, for its sale to Llorenç Bassa, a fellow apothecary, 1364 (AHPB); 4. Peter III the Ceremonious regularizes the legal situation of Esteró, a Jewish female doctor from Vilafranca del Penedès, granting her an extraordinary license to practice medicine. 1384 (ACA); 5. Power of attorney of Margarida de Tornerons, a doctor in Prats de Molló and Vic, in order to recover the goods withheld from her by a third party in Vic, 1401 (ABEV); 6. Doctorate and teaching license of Narcís Solà, bachelor of medicine, issued by Bernat de Casaldòvol, doctor of medicine and chancellor of the Faculty of Medicine in Barcelona, 1526 (AHCB); and 7. Partnership between Joan Llunes and Joan Francesc Llunes, father and son, and Lluís Gual, the former’s son-in-law, surgeons of Caldes de Montbui, in order to practise the profession, 1579 (AHCB).

Centre de Documentació Ramon Llull

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Centre de Documentació Ramon Llull
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Universitat de Barcelona

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Institut Interuniversitari López Piñero
Dept. d’Història de la Ciència i Documentació
Universitat de València