New Heavens and a New Earth

New Heavens and a New Earth

The Jewish Reception of Copernican Thought

Brown, Jeremy

Oxford University Press Inc

09/2021

416

Mole

Inglês

9780197584330

15 a 20 dias

600

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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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