Studies in the History of Culture and Science: A Tribute to Gad Freudenthal

Contents......Page 7
Contributors......Page 11
Selected Publications of Gad Freudenthal......Page 13
Introduction......Page 21
TEXTS: EDITIONS, TRANSLATIONS, AND COMMENTARIES......Page 25
R. Rashed: Le pseudo al-Hasan ibn al-Haytam: Sur l\'asymptote......Page 27
C. Burnett: Al-Qabisi\'s Introduction to Astrology: From Courtly Entertainment to University Textbook......Page 63
Y. Tzvi Langermann: A Different Hue to Medieval Jewish Philosophy: Four Investigations into an Unstudied Philosophical Text......Page 91
M. Zonta: Aristotle\'s De anima and De generatione et corruptione in the Medieval Hebrew Tradition: New Details Regarding Textual History Coming from a Neglected Manuscript......Page 111
T. Lévy: La mesure du cercle d’Archimède au moyen age: Le témoignage des textes hébreux......Page 123
P.B. Fenton: Un traité judéo-arabe sur les vertus du tabac rédigé dans la main du Sayh Sufi \'Abd al-Gani an-Nabulusi......Page 159
STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL CULTURAL HISTORY......Page 189
H.A. Davidson: Maimonides and Samuel Ben Ali......Page 191
J. Puig Montada: Ibn Rusd and the Almohad Context......Page 209
C. Fraenkel: Legislating Truth: Maimonides, the Almohads, and the Thirteenth-Century Jewish Enlightenment......Page 229
J. Olszowy-Schlanger: The Money Language: Latin and Hebrew in Jewish Legal Contracts from Medieval England......Page 253
R. Leicht: Nahmanides on Necromany......Page 271
R. Fontaine: The First Survey of the Metaphysics in Hebrew......Page 285
H. Kahana-Smilansky: Solomon ben Moses Melguiri and the Transmission of Knowledge from Latin into Hebrew......Page 303
S. Klein-Braslavy: Dialectic in Gersonides\' Biblical Commentaries......Page 323
J. Luis Mancha: Demonstrative Astronomy: Notes on Levi ben Gersom\'s Answer to Guide II.24......Page 343
W. Zev Harvey: Nicole Oresme and Hasdai Crescas on Many Worlds......Page 367
R. Glasner: The Peculiar History of Aristotelianism among Spanish Jews......Page 381
STUDIES IN EARLY MODERN CULTURAL HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY......Page 403
B.R. Goldstein and G. Hon: Duhem\'s Continuity Thesis: The Intrusion of Ideology into History of Science......Page 405
G. Freudenthal: Enlightenment in Gold......Page 431
S. Berger: A Bestseller in Context: Referring to the Tsene Rene in Early Modern Yiddish Books......Page 439
C. Manekin: On Humanist Logic Judaized—Then and Now: Two Models for the Appropriation of Gentile Science......Page 451
I.E. Zwiep: Hebrew “Sociolinguistics”......Page 473
Index......Page 491