Planets, potions, and parchments : scientifica Hebraica from the Dead Sea Scrolls to the eighteenth century / / B. Barry Levy

• Autore: Levy B. Barry
• Pubblicazione: Montreal ; ; Buffalo, : Published for the Jewish Public Library by McGill-Queen's University Press, c1990
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (153 p.)
• Disciplina: 509
• Soggetto topico: Jewish scientists - Early works to 1800; Science; Jews - Medicine - Early works to 1800; Hebrew imprints; Manuscripts, Hebrew; Jewish illumination of books and manuscripts
• Note generali: Catalogue of an exhibition presented by the Jewish Public Library, and held May-Sept. 1990 at the David M. Stewart Museum, Montréal.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [136]-137) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Of Whirlwinds and Crucibles -- God and Nature in Ancient Times -- Astronomy -- Mathematics and Geometry -- General Science -- Medicine -- Science and Religious Ritual -- Geography and Cartography -- Postscript -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: More than 200 rare scientific manuscripts, books, maps, amulets, and magical texts have been brought together from renowned collections in Europe, Canada, Israel, Great Britain, and the United States specifically for this exhibition. The most famous among these is a fragment from the Dead Sea Scrolls containing chapters 81 to 85 from the Book of Psalms: fragments from the scrolls have been in Canada on only two other occasions. The exhibition will have an Assyrian cuneiform tablet from the seventh century BCE that describes treatments for eye ailments, a first edition Copernicus, and several texts by Maimonides, including one with marginal notes by Martin Luther. Also featured, in a rare Latin translation, is an Arabic medical book written by a Jew, demonstrating the international and inter-faith nature of the medieval scientific endeavour.
• Titolo autorizzato: Planets, potions, and parchments
• ISBN: 1-282-85180-2; 9786612851803; 0-7735-6266-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910809515203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II