Gersonides : a portrait of a fourteenth-century philosopher-scientist / Ruth Glasner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glasner, Ruth, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Levi ben Gershom, 1288-1344.

Levi ben Gershom.

Philosophy, Medieval.

Jewish philosophy--To 1500.

Jewish philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 139 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Portrait of a fourteenth-century philosopher-scientist

Portrait of a 14 century philosopher-scientist

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Summary:

Gersonides was a highly original Jewish philosopher, scientist, and biblical exegete, active in Provence in the first half of the fourteenth century. Ruth Glasner explores his impressive achievements, and argues that the key to understanding his originality is his perspective as an applied mathematical scientist.

Contents:

Background : the state of the applied mathematical sciences

Gersonides : outline of a scientific biography

Physics : breaking the Aristotelian harmony

Cosmology : examining the assumption of celestial animation

Method : empericism and the examination of hypotheses

Metaphysics : doubts and reservations

Cosmology : the science of rays

Astronomy : specialization and hesitation

Concluding remark : Gersonides and western science.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 26, 2015).

ISBN:

9780191054730

0191054739

0-19-179982-3