Maimonides and the sciences / edited by Robert S. Cohen and Hillel Levine.

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[2000], ©2000
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Dordrecht ; London : Kluwer Academic, [2000], ©2000.

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xv, 251 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Contents

Moses Maimonides / Y. Tzvi Langermann -- Defining Maimonides' Aristotelianism / Alexander Altmann -- Maimonides in context / Joseph Agassi -- "With all your heart and with all your soul" / Daniel H. Frank -- Maimonides' guide of the perplexed and the transmission of the mathematical tract "on two asymptotic lines" in the Arabic, Latin and Hebrew traditions / Gad Freudenthal -- Maimonidean naturalism / L.E. Goodman -- Deus sive natura / Moshe Idel -- Maimonides' use of (Aristotelian) dialectic / Joel L. Kraemer -- Maimonides' repudiation of astrology / Y. Tzvi Langermann -- Al-Sijzi / Roshdi Rashed -- Maimonides on language and the science of language / Joseph Stern -- Aspects of Maimonides' epistemology / Isadore Twersky.

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Includes indexes and bibliographies.

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  • 0792360532