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.

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Main Author: Freudenthal, Gad
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Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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505 0 |a Cover; Science in Medieval Jewish Cultures; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Contributors; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction: The History of Science in Medieval Jewish Cultures: Toward a Definition of the Agenda; "TURNS" IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE; "TURNS" IN THE FIELD OF JEWISH STUDIES; A NEW ALLIANCE OF THE TWO DISCIPLINES; 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. 
505 8 |a THE ISLAMIC WORLDCHRISTIAN EUROPE; 2: Medieval Hebrew Translations of Philosophical and Scientific Texts: A Chronological Table; POSTSCRIPTUM; 3: Arabic and Latin Cultures as Resources for the Hebrew Translation Movement: Comparative Considerations, Both Quantitative and Qualitative; THE APPROPRIATION OF SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY, AND MEDICINE FROM ARABIC AND FROM LATIN CULTURES: A COMPARATIVE VIEW; Translations of Science and Philosophy from Arabic and from Latin: Quantitative Comparison; Appropriation from Arabic and from Latin: Comparative Qualitative Considerations. 
505 8 |a THE SHUNNING OF LATIN: POSSIBLE CAUSESProvence; Italy; The Iberian Peninsula; AN AREA OF INTENSIVE LATIN-TO-HEBREW CULTURAL TRANSFER: MEDICINE; CONCLUSION; 4: The Production of Hebrew Scientific Books According to Dated Medieval Manuscripts; PART II: INDIVIDUAL SCIENCES AS STUDIED AND PRACTICEDBY MEDIEVAL JEWS; 5: Logic in Medieval Jewish Culture; LOGIC AND THE JEWS OF ISLAMIC COUNTRIES; ARABIC LOGIC IN HEBREW GARB; Thirteenth Century; Fourteenth Century; Gersonides; Fifteenth Century; SCHOLASTIC LOGIC IN HEBREW GARB. 
505 8 |a AFTERWORD: THE USE OF LOGIC IN MEDIEVAL JEWISH SCRIPTURAL AND TALMUDIC EXEGESIS6: Astronomy among Jews in the Middle Ages; SPAIN; PROVENCE; ITALY; THE LATE PHASE: JUDAH BEN VERGA AND ABRAHAM ZACUT; CONCLUDING REMARKS; 7: Interactions between Jewish and Christian Astronomers in the Iberian Peninsula; SCIENTIFIC TRANSLATION; ORIGINAL WORKS OF ASTRONOMY IN A MULTICULTURAL MILIEU; ROYAL PATRONAGE IN ARAGON; JEWISH--CHRISTIAN COLLABORATION AT THE EVE OF THE EXPULSION; CONCLUSION; 8: The Hebrew Mathematics Culture (Twelfth-Sixteenth Centuries); DEFINITION AND SCOPE. 
505 8 |a MEDIEVAL HEBREW MATHEMATICS (TWELFTH--SIXTEENTH CENTURIES): AN OVERVIEW OF PERIODS AND PERSONSPrelude: Minat ha-Middot (The Book of Measurements): Witness of an Early Oriental Tradition?; The Birth of a Hebrew Scientific Language and Literature in Twelfth-Century Spain; The First Translations of Classical Texts (Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries); Two Fourteenth-Century Provençal Mathematician-Astronomers; Translations and Commentaries in Fifteenth-Century Italy; Mathematics in the Judeo-Byzantine Scholarly World (Fifteenth-Sixteenth Centuries); BODIES OF MATHEMATICAL KNOWLEDGE IN HEBREW. 
500 |a Euclid and the Euclidean Tradition. 
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