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Science in Medieval Jewish Cultures
Gad Freudenthal (Ed.)
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hardcover. Provides the first comprehensive overview by world-renowned experts of what we know today of medieval Jews' engagement with the sciences. Editor(s): Freudenthal, Mr. Gad. Num Pages: 560 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLC; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 255 x 187 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1126. 560 pages, 1 table. Editor(s): Freudenthal, Gad. Provides the first comprehensive overview by world-renowned experts of what we know today of medieval Jews' engagement with the sciences. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLC; PDX. Dimension: 255 x 187 x 44. Weight: 1138.
Science in Medieval Jewish Cultures provides the first comprehensive overview by world-renowned experts of what we know today of medieval Jews' engagement with the sciences. Many medieval Jews, whether living in Islamic or Christian civilizations, joined Maimonides in accepting the rationalist philosophical-scientific tradition and appropriated extensive bodies of scientific knowledge in various disciplines: astronomy, astrology, mathematics, logic, physics, meteorology, biology, psychology, science of language and medicine. The appropriated texts – in the original or in Hebrew translation – were the starting points for Jews' own contributions to medieval science and also informed other literary genres: religious-philosophical works, biblical commentaries and ... Read more
Science in Medieval Jewish Cultures provides the first comprehensive overview by world-renowned experts of what we know today of medieval Jews' engagement with the sciences. Many medieval Jews, whether living in Islamic or Christian civilizations, joined Maimonides in accepting the rationalist philosophical-scientific tradition and appropriated extensive bodies of scientific knowledge in various disciplines: astronomy, astrology, mathematics, logic, physics, meteorology, biology, psychology, science of language and medicine. The appropriated texts – in the original or in Hebrew translation – were the starting points for Jews' own contributions to medieval science and also informed other literary genres: religious-philosophical works, biblical commentaries and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
560
Condition
New
Number of Pages
560
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107001459
SKU
V9781107001459
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About Gad Freudenthal (Ed.)
Gad Freudenthal is a Senior Research Fellow (Emeritus) at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in Paris. He is the author and editor of several volumes on the history of science in antiquity and in the Middle Ages, especially in Jewish cultures, most recently, Science in the Medieval Hebrew and Arabic Traditions (2005). He is also editor of ... Read more
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