David B. Ruderman
Foreword by Moshe Idel
—David N. Myers, University of California, Los Angeles
408 pages
13 illustrations
2001 (1995 by Yale University)
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Jewish
Thought and Scientific Discovery in Early Modern Europe David B. Ruderman Foreword by Moshe Idel |
Jewish Thought and Scientific Discovery in Modern Europe is a major contribution in understanding the cultural processes involved in the emergence and development of the consumer phase of science. It covers many Jewish authors and their writings from the middle of the 16th until the late 18th centuries in Europe. The book's combined approach to the history of science and Jewish thought strongly emphasises analysis of the mentalities that informed some of the prominent figures of Jewish thought in this time period. Jewish Thought and Scientific Discovery in Modern Europe takes a comprehensive look at the processes taking place in the minds of European Jewish intellectuals in Italy, Amsterdam, Prague, and London. The main purpose of this book is the description of the modalities of reception of the new sciences, complicated by the traditional reticence toward "alien sciences" found in many medieval Jewish writers still influential in the early modern period. | "Jewish
Thought and Scientific Discovery is pioneering
in this examination of scientific discourse in the dynamic and fascinating
period of early modern Jewish history. The book can be used widely in courses
on medieval and modern Jewish history, as well as courses on Jewish thought.
It is a readable text that doesn't intimidate the uninitiated." —David N. Myers, University of California, Los Angeles |
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| $22.95s paper / ISBN 0-8143-2931-4 408 pages 13 illustrations 2001 (1995 by Yale University) |
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