Gad Freudenthal's Science in Medieval Jewish Cultures PDF

By Gad Freudenthal

technological know-how in Medieval Jewish Cultures offers the 1st entire evaluate by way of world-renowned specialists of what we all know at the present time of medieval Jews' engagement with the sciences. Many medieval Jews, even if dwelling in Islamic or Christian civilizations, joined Maimonides in accepting the rationalist philosophical-scientific culture and appropriated large our bodies of medical wisdom in a variety of disciplines: astronomy, astrology, arithmetic, good judgment, physics, meteorology, biology, psychology, technological know-how of language and medication. The appropriated texts – within the unique or in Hebrew translation – have been the beginning issues for Jews' personal contributions to medieval technology and in addition trained different literary genres: religious-philosophical works, biblical commentaries or even Halakhic (legal) discussions. This volume's essays will supply readers with historical past wisdom of medieval medical inspiration essential to safely comprehend canonical Jewish medical texts. Its breadth displays the quantity and variety of Jewish cultures within the center a long time and the need of contemplating the fortunes of technological know-how in each one inside of its particular context.

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