Abraham Ibn Ezra and the Rise of Medieval Hebrew Science
Series: Brill's Series in Jewish Studies
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Published: April 2003
Language: eng; heb
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9789004129733
Subjects: History of ideas, intellectual history; History of science; Jewish studies; Interior Design - General; History; Philosophy; History: World; Medieval; Jewish astrology; Eastern; Eastern - General; 1092-1167; Contributions in science; Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meir,; Judaism and science
Description: "This book studies Abraham Ibn Ezra's (1089-1167) scientific thought. His life and oeuvre are viewed as the very embodiment of 'the rise of medieval Hebrew science', a process in which Jewish scholars gradually adopted the holy tongue as a vehicle to express scientific ideas."--BOOK JACKET.