Gersonides : a portrait of a fourteenth-century philosopher-scientist /

Gersonides was a highly original Jewish philosopher, scientist and biblical exegete, active in Provence in the first half of the fourteenth century. Ruth Glasner explores his impressive achievements, and argues that the key to understanding his originality is his perspective as an applied mathematic...

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Main Author:	Glasner, Ruth (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Levi ben Gershom, > 1288-1344. Jewish philosophy. Philosophy, Medieval. Jewish philosophers > France.