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Jewish Thought and Scientific Discovery in Early Modern Europe
Contributor(s): Ruderman, David B. (Author), Idel, Moshe (Foreword by)

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 ISBN: 0814329314     ISBN-13: 9780814329313
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
OUR PRICE: $26.24  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: August 2001
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Annotation: An examination of the interaction between Jewish culture, medicine, and science during Europe's age of "Scientific Revolution".
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BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Judaism - Theology
Dewey: 296.375
LCCN: 2001026178
Physical Information: 0.95" H x 6.06" W x 9" L (1.50 lbs) 432 pages
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
 
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Jewish Thought and Scientific Discovery in Early 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 Early 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.
 
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