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

Glasner, Ruth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198735863 ISBN 13: 9780198735861

Verlag: Oxford University Press(UK), 2015

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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. 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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Ruth Glasner is Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her PhD research focused on Greek philosophy, and she later turned to work on medieval science, notably physics, mathematics and astronomy. Glasner studies mainly Hebrew medieval texts with a special interest in the genre of the commentary.

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• Verlag: Oxford University Press(UK)
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0198735863
• ISBN 13: 9780198735861
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 152
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