Science in the Medieval Hebrew and Arabic Traditions

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Contents: Introduction Science in the Medieval Hebrew Tradition: Socio-Cultural Considerations: Science in the medieval Jewish culture of Southern France Holiness and defilement: the ambivalent perception of philosophy by its opponents in the early 14th century. Maimonides, Gersonides and Some Others: Maimonides' stance on astrology in context: cosmology, physics, medicine, and providence Levi ben Gershom (Gersonides), 1288-1344 Sauver son A me ou sauver les phenomenes: soteriologie, epistemologie et astronomie chez Gersonide Levi ben Gershom as a scientist: physics, astrology and eschatology Sur la partie astronomique du Liwyat Hen de Levi ben Abraham ben Hayyim The distinction between two R. Joseph b. Joseph Nahmias - the commentator and the astrologer Two notes on Sefer Meyashsher 'aqob by Alfonso, alias Abner of Burgos Al-FA rA bA(R) on the foundations of geometry. Reverberations of Greek Theory of Matter in Arabic and Hebrew: The theory of the opposites and an ordered universe: physics and metaphysics in Anaximander (Al-)Chemical foundations for cosmological ideas: Ibn SA(R)nA on the geology of an eternal world Stoic physics in the writings of R. Saadia Gaon al-Fayyumi and its aftermath in medieval Jewish mysticism L'Heritage de la physique stoA-cienne dans la pensee juive medievale (Saadia Gaon, les DevA'ts rhenans, Sefer ha-Maskil The medieval astrologization of Aristotle's biology: Averroes on the role of the celestial bodies in the generation of animate bodies Providence, astrology, and celestial influences on the sublunar world in Shem-Tov Ibn Falaquera's De'ot ha-Filosofim Index.