Science in Medieval Jewish Cultures by Gad Freudenthal (2012)

Science in Medieval Jewish Cultures\n\nProvides the first comprehensive overview by world-renowned experts of what we know today of medieval Jews' engagement with the sciences.\n\nGad Freudenthal (Edited by)\n\n9781107001459 (SKU 3292098), Cambridge University Press\n\nHardback, published 23 January 2012\n\n560 pages\n26 x 18.9 x 4.5 cm, 1.13 kg\n\nScience in Medieval Jewish Cultures provides the first comprehensive overview by world-renowned experts of what we know today of medieval Jews' engagement with the sciences. Many medieval Jews, whether living in Islamic or Christian civilizations, joined Maimonides in accepting the rationalist philosophical-scientific tradition and appropriated extensive bodies of scientific knowledge in various disciplines: astronomy, astrology, mathematics, logic, physics, meteorology, biology, psychology, science of language and medicine. The appropriated texts \u2013 in the original or in Hebrew translation \u2013 were the starting points for Jews' own]