Gersonides : A Portrait of a Fourteenth-Century Philosopher-Scientist

Name: Gersonides
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780198735861
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ISBN: 9780198735861

by Ruth Glasner

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Format Hardback

ISBN-10 0198735863

ISBN-13 9780198735861

Publisher Oxford University Press

Imprint Oxford University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date May 21st, 2015

Print length 152 Pages

Weight 326 grams

Dimensions 22.50 x 14.50 x 1.80 cms

Product Classification: Relating to Jewish people and groups Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600 History of ideas Social groups: religious groups and communities History of ideas Jewish studies History of science Medieval Western philosophy

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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.

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. It was this perspective that led him to examine Aristotelianism from directions different from those usually adopted by contemporary scholastic scholars. Gersonides started on his way, as he himself claims, as a ''mathematician, natural scientist, and philosopher'', who believed in his power to solve the main problems of medieval science. He ended up concentrating on his work as a mathematical astronomer, developing techniques of observation and computation, and somewhat less optimistic about the prospect of scientific knowledge.

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