New Heavens and a New Earth
Subtitle: The Jewish Reception of Copernican Thought
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated; Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780199754793
Subjects: Copernicus, nicolaus, 1473-1543; Astronomy
Description: Jeremy Brown offers a study of the Jewish reception of the Copernican revolution, examining 400 years of Jewish writings on the Copernican model. Brown shows the ways in which Jews ignored, rejected, or accepted the Copernican model, and the theological and societal underpinnings of their choices.