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Jewish thought and scientific discovery in early modern Europe / David B. Ruderman.
LIBRA BM538.S3 R818 1995
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ruderman, David B.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Judaism and science.
- Jews--Medicine--Europe--History.
- Jews.
- Jews--Europe--Intellectual life.
- Medicine--Religious aspects--Judaism.
- Medicine.
- Jewish scientists--Europe--History.
- Jewish scientists.
- Jewish physicians--Europe--History.
- Jewish physicians.
- Jews--history.
- History.
- Intellectual life.
- Jews--Medicine.
- Europe.
- History, Early Modern 1451-1600.
- History, Modern 1601-.
- Science--history.
- Geneeskunde.
- Joden.
- Natuurwetenschappen.
- Jews--Intellectual life.
- Medical Subjects:
- Jews--history.
- Europe.
- History, Early Modern 1451-1600.
- History, Modern 1601-.
- Science--history.
- Local Subjects:
- Geneeskunde.
- Joden.
- Natuurwetenschappen.
- Genre:
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Katz, Michael B., 1939-2014 (former owner)
- Physical Description:
- xi, 392 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, [1995]
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0300061129
- 9780300061123
- OCLC:
- 30913948
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