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.
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.
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
* 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
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