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Jewish thought and scientific discovery in early modern Europe /

A study on the scientific dimension of Jewish intellectual history in the early modern world.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ruderman, David B. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, [1995]
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / Moshe Idel
  • Medieval Jewish Attitudes toward Nature and Scientific Activity
  • The Legitimation of Scientific Activity among Central and Eastern European Jews
  • Padua and the Formation of a Jewish Medical Community in Italy
  • Can a Scholar of the Natural Sciences Take the Kabbalah Seriously? The Divergent Positions of Leone Modena and Joseph Delmedigo
  • Science and Skepticism: Simone Luzzatto on Perceiving the Natural World
  • Between High and Low Cultures: Echoes of the New Science in the Writings of Judah Del Bene and Azariah Figo
  • Kabbalah, Science, and Christian Polemics: The Debate between Samson Morpurgo and Solomon Aviad Sar Shalom Basilea
  • On the Diffusion of Scientific Knowledge within the Jewish Community: The Medical Textbook of Tobias Cohen
  • Contemporary Science and Jewish Law in the Eyes of Isaac Lampronti and His Rabbinic Interlocutors
  • The Community of Converso Physicians: Race, Medicine, and the Shaping of a Cultural Identity
  • A Jewish Thinker in Newtonian England: David Nieto and His Defense of the Jewish Faith
  • Physico-Theology and Jewish Thought at the End of the Eighteenth Century: Mordechai Schnaber Levison and Some of His Contemporaries
  • Bibliographic Essay: The Study of Nature in Ancient Judaism.