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Gersonides: A Portrait of a Fourteenth-Century Philosopher-Scientist
Ruth Glasner
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Hardcover. 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. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: HPCB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 326.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
326g
Number of Pages
152
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198735861
SKU
V9780198735861
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About Ruth Glasner
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.
Reviews for Gersonides: A Portrait of a Fourteenth-Century Philosopher-Scientist
In each of these discussions, Glasner succeeds in providing the reader with an illuminating and brief exposition of Gersonides stance.
Tony Lévy, Isis
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