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Science in medieval Jewish cultures /
"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 ration...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Introduction: the history of science in medieval Jewish cultures: toward a definition of the agenda / Gad Freudenthal
- Part I. The Greek-Arabic Scientific Tradition and its Appropriation, Adaptation, and Development in Medieval Jewish Cultures, East and West: 1. The assimilation of Greco-Arabic learning by medieval Jewish cultures: a brief bibliographic introduction / Gad Freudenthal; 2. Medieval Hebrew translations of philosophical and scientific texts: a chronological table / Mauro Zonta; 3. Arabic and Latin cultures as resources for the Hebrew Translation Movement: comparative considerations, both quantitative and qualitative / Gad Freudenthal; 4. The production of Hebrew scientific books according to dated medieval manuscripts / Malachi Beit-Arié
- Part II. Individual Sciences as Studied and Practiced by Medieval Jews: 5. Logic in medieval Jewish culture / Charles H. Manekin; 6. Astronomy among Jews in the Middle Ages / Bernard R. Goldstein; 7. Interactions between Jewish and Christian Astronomers in the Iberian Peninsula / José Chabás; 8. The Hebrew mathematics culture (twelfth-sixteenth centuries) / Tony Lévy; 9. Mathematical and physical optics in medieval Jewish scientific thought / Eyal Meiron; 10. The evolution of the genre of philosophical-scientific commentary: Hebrew supercommentaries on Aristotle's Physics / Ruth Glasner; 11. Latin scholastic influences on late medieval Hebrew physics: the state of the art / Mauro Zonta; 12. Meteorology and zoology in medieval Hebrew science / Resianne Fontaine; 13. The mental faculties and the psychology of sleep and dreams / Hagar Kahana-Smilansky; 14. Toward a history of Hebrew astrological literature: a bibliographical survey / Reimund Leicht; 15. Astrology in medieval Jewish thought (twelfth-fourteenth centuries) / Shlomo Sela; 16. Astral magic and specific properties (Segullot) in medieval Jewish thought: non-Aristotelian science and theology / Dov Schwartz; 17. Medicine among medieval Jews; the science, the art, and the practice / Carmen Caballero-Navas; 18. Medieval alchemy in medieval Jewish cultures: a noted absence / Gad Freudenthal; 19. The science of language among medieval Jews / Judith Olszowy-Schlanger
- Part III. Scientific Knowledge in Context: 20. Medieval Karaism and science / Daniel J. Lasker; 21. Science in the Jewish communities of the Byzantine cultural orbit: new perspectives / Y. Tzvi Langermann; 22. Philosophy and science in medieval Jewish commentaries on the Bible / James T. Robinson; 23. Kabbalah and science in the Middle Ages: preliminary remarks / Hava Tirosh-Samuelson; 24. History, language, and the sciences in medieval Spain / Eleazar Gutwirth.