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

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 mathemati...

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Main Author: Glasner, Ruth (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
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505 0 |a 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. 
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