Science in Medieval Jewish Cultures

Science in Medieval Jewish Cultures - Gad Freudenthal

Reducere. DescriptionIn Becoming the People of the Talmud, Talya Fishman examines ways in which circumstances of transmission have shaped the cultural meanin...

The chapters of Painful pleasures offer new and worthwhile pathways of examination into medieval culture and invite further analyses into the kinki...

Essays bringing out the richness and vibrancy of pre-modern textual culture in all its variety.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer LtdIllustration(s): 62 c...

Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, WydawnictwoAuthor(s): Adam Izdebski And JaNumber of pages: 310Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 240 x 164 x 17...

Jewish Women in the Medieval World offers a thematic overview of the lived experiences of Jewish women in both Europe and the Middle East from 500 ...

Reducere. This book reevaluates the prevailing notion that Jews in medieval Christian Europe lived under an appalling regime of ecclesiastical limitation, go...

The origins of Judaism's regional 'subcultures' are poorly understood, as are Jewish identities other than 'Ashkenaz' and 'Sepharad'. Through case ...

The Two Cultures Controversy: Science, Literature and Cultural Politics in Postwar Britain - Guy Ortolano

Much of what we know about life in the medieval Islamic Middle East comes from texts written to impart religious ideals or to chronicle the movemen...

Are art and science separated by an unbridgeable divide? Can they find common ground? In this new book, neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel, whose remark...

Reducere. Over the last two decades there has been an increasing interest in the influence of medieval Jewish thought upon Spinoza's philosophy. The essays i...

A comprehensive, rigorous analysis of all the significant medieval Islamic and Jewish proofs for the eternity of the world, the creation of the wor...

In Maimonides and the Merchants, Mark R. Cohen reveals the extent of pragmatic revisions to the halakha, or body of Jewish law, introduced by Moses...

DescriptionThis book is concerned with cheating in Science and the harm that it does, concentrating on three disasters in cell culture, which cause...

The acclaimed study of the birth of astronomy in three ancient societies One of the founding fathers of the study of ancient astronomy, Anthony Ave...

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Reducere. Human civilization will be forever indebted to the great thinkers of Jewish philosophy's golden age. Moses Maimonedes, Levi Gersonides, Judah Halev...

Reducere. Too often, the study of science, math, and technology is limited to the major successes of the Western world. Yet people all over the world have ob...

Publisher: Cambridge University Press India Pvt. Ltd.Number of pages: 356Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 19Cover type: Paperback / so...

Traits that signal belonging dictate our daily routines, including how we eat, move, and connect to others. In recent years, fat has emerged as a s...

Contributor(s): Editor: Olivia Remie ConstableFor some historians, medieval Iberian society was one marked by peaceful coexistence and cross-cultur...

Parler du theatre francais, du Moyen Age jusqu'au XVIIe siecle, peut s'averer, d'emblee, une entreprise parsemee d'obstacles. Le mot 'theatre', don...

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Reducere. Mansa Musa was the king of Mali. Located in western Africa, Mali became one of the largest empires during the time of Musas rule. Musa helped his e...

This is a 'Whole Earth Catalog' for the 21st century: an impressive and wide-ranging analysis of what's wrong with our societies, organizations, id...

Eminent Marxist intellectual recounts class struggles in Nazi-torn Belgium Marcel Liebman was one of post-war Europe's preeminent Marxist intellect...

This collection brings together leading social anthropologists, historians, philosophers of science and mathematics, and researchers in artificial ...

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Reducere. This volume offers fresh approaches to both the material and the subject matter of late medieval English alabaster sculptures, bringing them into d...

"The Bell Curve", "The Moral Animal", "The Selfish Gene" - these and a host of other books and articles have made a seemingly overwhelming case tha...

DescriptionEvery work on Jewish thought and law since the twelfth century bears the imprint of Maimonides. A. N. Whitehead's famous dictum that the...