"An hommage to Gad Freudenthal, this volume offers twenty-two chapters on the history of science and the role of science in Jewish cultures. Written by outstanding scholars from all over the world, it is a token of appreciation for Freudenthal's accomplishments in this discipline. The chapters in this volume include editions and translations of source texts in different languages and focus on topics that reflect the problématiques Gad Freudenthal often tackled in his own research: aspects of knowledge transfer, translation processes, and the appropriation of knowledge from one culture to another. They are contributions to a better understanding of the cross-cultural contacts in the field of science between Jews, Muslim, and Christians in the Middle Ages and early modern times"--Cover, pages [4].

"Selected publications of Gad Freudenthal": pages [xi]-xviii.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / R. Fontaine , R. Glasner , R. Leicht and G. Veltri -- Introduction / R. Fontaine , R. Glasner , R. Leicht and G. Veltri -- Le pseudo Al-Hasan Ibn Al-Haytam: Sur l’asymptote / R. Rashed -- Al-Qabiṣi’s Introduction To Astrology: From Courtly Entertainment To University Textbook / C. Burnett -- A Different Hue To Medieval Jewish Philosophy: Four Investigations Into An Unstudied Philosophical Text / Y. Tzvi Langermann -- Aristotle’s De Anima And De Generatione Et Corruptione In The Medieval Hebrew Tradition: New Details Regarding Textual History Coming From A Neglected Manuscript / M. Zonta -- La mesure du cercle d’Archimède au moyen age: Le témoignage des textes hébreux / T. Lévy -- Un traité judéo-arabe sur les vertus du tabac rédigé dans la main du Sayh Sufi ‘Abd al-Gani an-Nabulusi / P.B. Fenton -- Maimonides And Samuel Ben Ali / H.A. Davidson -- Ibn Rušd And The Almohad Context / J. Puig Montada -- Legislating Truth: Maimonides, The Almohads, And The Thirteenth-Century Jewish Enlightenment / C. Fraenkel -- The Money Language: Latin And Hebrew In Jewish Legal Contracts From Medieval England / J. Olszowy-Schlanger -- Nahmanides On Necromany / R. Leicht -- The First Survey Of The Metaphysics In Hebrew / R. Fontaine -- Solomon Ben Moses Melguiri And The Transmission Of Knowledge From Latin Into Hebrew / H. Kahana-Smilansky -- Dialectic In Gersonides’ Biblical Commentaries / S. Klein-Braslavy -- Demonstrative Astronomy: Notes On Levi Ben Gersom’s Answer To Guide II.24 / J. Luis Mancha -- Nicole Oresme And Hasdai Crescas On Many Worlds / W. Zev Harvey -- The Peculiar History Of Aristotelianism Among Spanish Jews / R. Glasner -- Duhem’s Continuity Thesis: The Intrusion Of Ideology Into History Of Science / B.R. Goldstein and G. Hon -- Enlightenment In Gold / G. Freudenthal -- A Bestseller In Context: Referring To The Tsene Rene In Early Modern Yiddish Books / S. Berger -- On Humanist Logic Judaized—Then And Now: Two Models For The Appropriation Of Gentile Science / C. Manekin -- Hebrew “Sociolinguistics” / I.E. Zwiep -- Index / R. Fontaine , R. Glasner , R. Leicht and G. Veltri.

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An hommage to Gad Freudenthal, this volume offers twenty-two chapters on the history of science and the role of science in Jewish cultures. Written by outstanding scholars from all over the world it is a token of appreciation for Freudenthal's accomplishments in this discipline. The chapters in this volume include editions and translations of source texts in different languages and focus on topics that reflect the problématiques Gad Freudenthal often tackled in his own research: aspects of knowledge transfer, translation processes and the appropriation of knowledge from one culture to another. They are contributions to a better understanding of the cross-cultural contacts in the field of science between Jews, Muslim and Christians in the Middle Ages and early modern times.

Contributions in English and French; several translations from Arabic, Latin, and Hebrew that include the original language texts.