Studies on Gersonides
A Fourteenth-Century Jewish Philosopher-Scientist
Biographical note
Gad Freudenthal is permanent research fellow at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (C.N.R.S.), Paris. Previously published: Études sur/studies on Hélène Metzger (Brill, 1990).
Readership
Historians of medieval science and medieval philosophy, especially of Jewish medieval philosophy, historians of Jewish thought, and the Arabic and Latin scholarly traditions.
Reviews
'The essays are generally of high quality and offer several new insights for the study of Gersonides' scientific project...The volume, well edited and handsomely produced, concludes with a most comprehensive and usable bibliography...offering an indispensable guide for all future research on medieval Jewish civilization and its most original scientific thinker.'
David B. Ruderman, ISIS, 1994.
'[A] superb collection of twelve articles (half in English, half in French) and two quite useful bibliographical appendices...'
F. Jamil Ragep, British Journal for the History of Science, 1995.
'This book is a very valuable contribution to Gersonidean studies, but it also helps to identify a need on behalf of the specialist in medieval Latin science, as well as that of neophyte, for a unified intellectual biography of this fascinating figure. The editor of the volume would seem admirably equipped for the task!'
A.G. Molland, Annals of Science, 1995.
'The essays are generally of high quality and offer several new insights for the study of Gersonides' scientific project. The volume, well edited and handsomely produced, concludes with a most comprehensive and usable bibliography of works by and on Gersonides by Menachem Kellner, offering an indispensable guide for all future research on medieval Jewish civilization and its most original scientific thinker.'
David B. Ruderman, ISIS, 1994.
'The book is very nicely bound and printed, and edited quite professionally by Gad Freudenthal.'
Samuel S. Kottek, Francisco Moreno-Carvalho, Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences, 1995.
'Studies on Gersonides is am important and valuable contribution to the study of Hebrew (and not only Hebrew) medieval science and philosophy.'
Ruth Glasner, Revue d'Histoire des Sciences, 1994.
'...ce recueil est d'une lecture indispensable pour toute étude sur ce savant d'Orange.'
Richard Ayoun, SENS, 1994.
'...für jeden unentbehrlich, der sich mit der mittelalterlichen Philosophie- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte beschäftigt, insonderheit mit dem Bereich, im welchen sich die jüdische, die arabisch-islamische und die europäische Überlieferung überschneiden.'
T.N., Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, 1996.
David B. Ruderman, ISIS, 1994.
'[A] superb collection of twelve articles (half in English, half in French) and two quite useful bibliographical appendices...'
F. Jamil Ragep, British Journal for the History of Science, 1995.
'This book is a very valuable contribution to Gersonidean studies, but it also helps to identify a need on behalf of the specialist in medieval Latin science, as well as that of neophyte, for a unified intellectual biography of this fascinating figure. The editor of the volume would seem admirably equipped for the task!'
A.G. Molland, Annals of Science, 1995.
'The essays are generally of high quality and offer several new insights for the study of Gersonides' scientific project. The volume, well edited and handsomely produced, concludes with a most comprehensive and usable bibliography of works by and on Gersonides by Menachem Kellner, offering an indispensable guide for all future research on medieval Jewish civilization and its most original scientific thinker.'
David B. Ruderman, ISIS, 1994.
'The book is very nicely bound and printed, and edited quite professionally by Gad Freudenthal.'
Samuel S. Kottek, Francisco Moreno-Carvalho, Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences, 1995.
'Studies on Gersonides is am important and valuable contribution to the study of Hebrew (and not only Hebrew) medieval science and philosophy.'
Ruth Glasner, Revue d'Histoire des Sciences, 1994.
'...ce recueil est d'une lecture indispensable pour toute étude sur ce savant d'Orange.'
Richard Ayoun, SENS, 1994.
'...für jeden unentbehrlich, der sich mit der mittelalterlichen Philosophie- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte beschäftigt, insonderheit mit dem Bereich, im welchen sich die jüdische, die arabisch-islamische und die europäische Überlieferung überschneiden.'
T.N., Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, 1996.
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