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Freudenthal, Gad, Science in the Medieval Hebrew and Arabic Traditions, Aldershot, Ashgate Variorum (Variorum Collected Studies Series, CS803), 2005, 372 pp.
- Resum
- Two major themes run through these studies by Gad Freudenthal: science and philosophy in the medieval Hebrew tradition; and the repercussions of Greek theories of matter in the medieval Arabic and Hebrew scientific traditions. The opening essays offer a sociologically-informed picture of the acceptance or rejection of the sciences among medieval Jews in Southern France. This is followed by studies of individual figures: on Gersonides' thought; on Maimonides' and Gersonides' respective views of astrology; on al-Fârâbî's philosophy of geometry; and two notes (translated from Hebrew) on less well-known thinkers. The second part of the volume is thematic; a study identifying in Anaximander's theory of matter the fountainhead of a long-lasting scientific problématique is followed by five essays on its reverberations in the works of authors as different as Saadia Gaon, Avicenna, Averroes, Shem-Tov Ibn Falaqera and the author of the mystic Sefer ha-maskil. They all sought and gave accounts for the unity and persistence of the cosmos, in which metaphysics often complements physics, some echoing Stoic physics, a topic to which special attention is devoted.
Content:
I: Socio-Cultural Considerations: Science in the medieval Jewish culture of Southern France
II: Holiness and defilement: the ambivalent perception of philosophy by its opponents in the early 14th century
III: Maimonides' stance on astrology in context: cosmology, physics, medicine, and providence
IV: Levi ben Gershom (Gersonides), 1288-1344
V: Sauver son âme ou sauver les phénomènes: sotériologie, épistémologie et astronomie chez Gersonide
VI: Levi ben Gershom as a scientist: physics, astrology and eschatology
VII: Sur la partie astronomique du Liwyat Hen de Lévi ben Abraham ben Hayyim
VIII: The distinction between two R. Joseph b. Joseph Nahmias (the commentator and the astrologer)
IX: Two notes on Sefer Meyashsher 'aqob by Alfonso, alias Abner of Burgos
X: Al-Fârâbî on the foundations of geometry
XI: The theory of the opposites and an ordered universe: physics and metaphysics in Anaximander
XII: (Al-)Chemical foundations for cosmological ideas: Ibn Sînâ on the geology of an eternal world
XIII: Stoic physics in the writings of R. Saadia Gaon al-Fayyumi and its aftermath in medieval Jewish mysticism
XIV: L'Héritage de la physique stoïcienne dans la pensée juive médiévale (Saadia Gaon, les Dévôts rhénans, Sefer ha-Maskil)
XV: Averroes on the role of the celestial bodies in the generation of animate bodies
XVI: Providence, astrology, and celestial influences on the sublunar world in Shem-Tov Ibn Falaquera's De`ot ha-Filosofim
- Matèries
- Història de la ciència
Hebraisme
Astronomia i astrologia
Alquímia
Aritmètica i geometria
Medicina
- Notes
- Fitxa de l'editor: http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTi ...
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