The Astronomy of Levi Ben Gerson (1288-1344): A Critical Edition of Chapters 1-20 with Translation and Commentary

by Bernard R. Goldstein

Book Overview

It would seem that S. Munk was the first modern scholar to draw attention to the significance of Levi ben Gerson's Astronomy, surely the most original work on astronomy written in Hebrew in the Middle Ages. Munk (1859, p. 500) called for a specialist to undertake a serious study of this work, but there was little response to his plea in the succeeding century. Indeed, this is the first edition of the Hebrew text of any part of Levi's Astronomy but...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1461385717
• ISBN13: 9781461385714
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"