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Gersonides : = a portrait of a fourteenth-century philosopher-scientist /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Gersonides :/ Ruth Glasner.
Reminder of title:	a portrait of a fourteenth-century philosopher-scientist /
Author:	Glasner, Ruth,
Published:	Oxford, United Kingdom :Oxford University Press, : 2015.,
Description:	xii, 139 p. :ill ;23 cm.
Subject:	Jewish philosophers - France. -
ISBN:	9780198735861

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

Gersonides :a portrait of a fourteenth-century philosopher-scientist /Ruth Glasner. - 1st ed. - Oxford, United Kingdom :Oxford University Press,2015. - xii, 139 p. :ill ;23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [109]-129) and index.

Background : the state of the applied mathematical sciences --

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--

ISBN: 9780198735861GBP30

LCCN: 2014951224Subjects--Personal Names:

3205391
Levi ben Gershom,
1288-1344.Subjects--Topical Terms:

3205392
Jewish philosophers
--France.

LC Class. No.: B759.L44 / G53 2015

Dewey Class. No.: 296.09

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