Jewish thought and scientific discovery in early modern Europe / David B. Ruderman ; foreword by Moshe Idel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ruderman, David B.

Contributor:

JSTOR (Organization)

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.

History.

Intellectual life.

Jews--Medicine.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 392 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Detroit, MI : Wayne State University Press, [1995]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

An examination of the interaction between Jewish culture, medicine, and science during Europe's age of "Scientific Revolution".

Contents:

Chapter 1 Medieval Jewish Attitudes toward Nature and Scientific Activity 14

Chapter 2 The Legitimation of Scientific Activity among Central and Eastern European Jews 54

Chapter 3 Padua and the Formation of a Jewish Medical Community in Italy 100

Chapter 4 Can a Scholar of the Natural Sciences Take the Kabbalah Seriously? The Divergent Positions of Leone Modena and Joseph Delmedigo 118

Chapter 5 Science and Skepticism: Simone Luzzatto on Perceiving the Natural World 153

Chapter 6 Between High and Low Cultures: Echoes of the New Science in the Writings of Judah Del Bene and Azariah Figo 185

Chapter 7 Kabbalah, Science, and Christian Polemics: The Debate between Samson Morpurgo and Solomon Aviad Sar Shalom Basilea 213

Chapter 8 On the Diffusion of Scientific Knowledge within the Jewish Community: The Medical Textbook of Tobias Cohen 229

Chapter 9 Contemporary Science and Jewish Law in the Eyes of Isaac Lampronti and His Rabbinic Interlocutors 256

Chapter 10 The Community of Converso Physicians: Race, Medicine, and the Shaping of a Cultural Identity 273

Chapter 11 A Jewish Thinker in Newtonian England: David Nieto and His Defense of the Jewish Faith 310

Chapter 12 Physico-Theology and Jewish Thought at the End of the Eighteenth Century: Mordechai Schnaber Levison and Some of His Contemporaries 332

Bibliographic Essay: The Study of Nature in Ancient Judaism 375.

Notes:

Originally published: New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, ©1995. With new introd.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-382) and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780300145953

0300145950

Publisher Number:

99970420590

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