Jeremy Brown

New Heavens and a New Earth

The Jewish Reception of Copernican Thought

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Produktbeschreibung

Jeremy Brown offers the first major study of the Jewish reception of the Copernican revolution, examining four hundred 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 160mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 794g
• ISBN-13: 9780197584330
• ISBN-10: 0197584330
• Artikelnr.: 61146601

Autorenporträt

Jeremy Brown is an emergency physician and Director of the Office of Emergency Care Research at the National Institutes of Health. His work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Scientific American, and The Spectator. He writes about science and medicine in the Talmud at Talmudology.com

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Chapter 1 - Nicolas Copernicus and His Revolution
* Chapter 2 - The Talmudic View of the Universe
* Chapter 3 - David Gans and the First Mention of Copernicus in Hebrew
Literature
* Chapter 4 - The First Jewish Copernican: Rabbi Joseph Solomon
Delmedigo
* Chapter 5 - ''Copernicus Is the Son of Satan.'' The First Jewish
Rejections of Copernicus
* Chapter 6 - David Nieto and Copernicanism in London
* Chapter 7 - The Jewish Encyclopedias
* Chapter 8 - The Eighteenth Century. Jews and Copernicus in the
Newtonian Era
* Chapter 9 - ''I Have Written a Book For the Young People.'' David
Friesenhausen's Mosdot Tevel
* Chapter 10 - The Nineteenth Century: Copernicus Without Hesitation
* Chapter 11 - ''Let Copernicus and a Thousand Like Him Be Removed From
the World.'' Reuven Landau's Rejection
* Chapter 12 - The Modern Period
* Chapter 13 - Relativity and Contemporary Jewish Geocentrists
* Chapter 14 - Conclusions
* Appendix
* Bibliography