Light of the World (e-bog) af Nahmias, Joseph ibn
Nahmias, Joseph ibn (forfatter)

Light of the World e-bog

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This book contains an editionwith an extensive introduction, translation and commentaryof The Light of the World, a text on theoretical astronomy by Joseph Ibn Nahmias, composed in Judeo-Arabic around 1400 C.E. in the Iberian Peninsula. As the only text on theoretical astronomy written by a Jew in any variety of Arabic, this work is evidence for a continuing relationship between Jewish and Isla...
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Forfattere Nahmias, Joseph ibn (forfatter)
Udgivet 1 marts 2016
Længde 448 sider
Genrer History of science
Sprog English
Format pdf
Beskyttelse LCP
ISBN 9780520963030
This book contains an editionwith an extensive introduction, translation and commentaryof The Light of the World, a text on theoretical astronomy by Joseph Ibn Nahmias, composed in Judeo-Arabic around 1400 C.E. in the Iberian Peninsula. As the only text on theoretical astronomy written by a Jew in any variety of Arabic, this work is evidence for a continuing relationship between Jewish and Islamic thought in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. The text's most lasting effect may have been exerted via its passage to Renaissance Italy, where it influenced scholars at the University of Padua in the early sixteenth century. With its crucial role in the development of European astronomy, as well as the physical sciences under Islam and in Jewish culture, The Light of the World is an important episode in Islamic intellectual history, Jewish civilization, and the history of astronomy.