Science in the Medieval Hebrew and Arabic Traditions
A historian of ideas, Freudenthal (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) assembles 16 papers originally published between 1986 and 2002 on socio-cultural considerations of science in the medieval Hebrew traditions; Maimonides, Gersonides, and some others; and the reverberations of Greek theory of matter in Arabic and Hebrew. Among specific topics are science in the medieval Jewish culture of southern France, distinguishing the commentator R. Joseph b. Joseph Nahmias from the...
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IScience in the Medieval Jewish culture of Southern FranceIIHoliness and defilement : the ambivalent perception of philosophy by its opponents in the early fourteenth centuryIIIMaimonides' stance on astrology in context : cosmology, physics, medicine, and providenceIVGersonides : Levi ben GershomVSauver son ame ou sauver les phenomenes : soteriologie, epistemologie et astronomie chez GersonideVILevi ben Gershom as a scientist : physics, astrology and eschatologyVIISur la partie astronomique du Liwyat ben de Levi ben Abraham be HayyimVIIIDistinguishing two R. Joseph b. Joseph Nahmias : the commentator and the astrologerIXTwo notes on Sefer Meyasher 'aqov by Alfonso, alias Abner of BurgosXAl-Farabi on the foundations of geometryXIThe theory of the opposites and an ordered universe : physics an dmetaphysics in AnaximanderXII(Al)chemical foundations for cosmological ideas : Ibn Sina on the geology of an eternal worldXIIIStoic physics in the writings of R. Saadia Ga' on al-Fayyumi and its aftermath in medieval Jewish mysticismXIVL'heritage de la physique stocienne dans la pensee juive medievale (Saadia Gaon, les devots rhenans, Sefer ha-Maskil)XVThe medieval astrologization of Aristotle's biology : Averroes on the role of the celestial bodies in the generation of Animate beingsXVIProvidence, astrology, and celestial influences on the sublunar world in Shem-Tov ibn Falaquera's
