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Darrera modificació: 2009-08-21
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat, Oc
Altmann, Alexander, "Judah Halevi's Theory of Climates", Aleph: Historical Studies in Science and Judaism, 5 (2005), 215-246.
- Resum
- Alexander Altmann's Torat ha-'aqlimim le-rabbi Yehudah haLevi, published during World War II in the short-lived Manchester periodical Melilah (1 [1944], 1-17), has justly been considered a classic. In a few pages it traces the history of an idea found in Judah Halevi's Kuzari back to its multifold remote sources, depicting a complex history stretching from Hippocrates to the twelfth century, passing by way of Hellenistic and Arabic science and philosophy and Iranian gnosticism. Since Melilah is not readily available, and since many potential readers were barred from acquainting themselves with Altmann's paper because it was in Hebrew, it seemed useful to make the paper available in English. Although some of the information and many of the references are naturally outdated today, Altmann's essential contentions and insights remain valid, and the article still stands as a model of its kind. Translated, with a prefatory note, by Lenn J. Schramm.
- Matèries
- Hebraisme
Filosofia - Filosofia natural
Hebreu
- Notes
- Judah, ha-Levi (s. XII). Climatologia.
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