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Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Langermann, Y. Tzvi, "A Compendium of Renaissance Science: Ta'alumot ḥoḵmah by Moses Galeano", Aleph Historical Studies in Science and Judaism, 7/1 (2007), 285-318.
- Resum
- Ta'alumot ḥoḵmah ("Puzzles of Wisdom"), a compendium of Renaissance knowledge composed by Moses ben Judah Galeano around the year 1500, is one of the most idiosyncratic and historically interesting specimens of Hebrew scientific literature. The author was a physician, astronomer, and translator, active at the court of Bayazid II, who spent some time in Italy and Crete as well. Ostensibly a catalogue of errors, in which Galeano reviews mistakes of reasoning on scientific and other issues, his book is a rich repository of information. Various items in the fields of astronomy, mathematics, alchemy, and ethics are examined in depth. The most exciting of these is a discussion of astronomical models in which the author includes the system of Ibn al-Shāṭir, which displays a strong resemblance to Copernicus' models. Ta'alumot ḥoḵmah offers the first evidence that someone who knew Ibn al-Shāṭir well was present in Italy.
- Matèries
- Història de la ciència
Humanisme
Jueus
- URL
- https://www.jstor.org/stable/40377866
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/250179404_ ...
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