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Gersonides

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Gersonides (gərsŏn`ĭdēz) or Levi ben Gershon (lē`vī bĕn gûr`shən), 1288–1344, Jewish philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician, called also Ralbag, from the initials of his Hebrew name, b. Languedoc. He wrote scientific works and commentaries on Averroës and the Torah. His Milchamoth Adonai [the wars of the Lord] is an elaborate treatise modeled after the Moreh Nevukhim of Maimonides. It is mainly a systematic criticism of the syncretism of Maimonides. His scientific views remained influential into the 19th cent.


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Freudenthal's collection of sixteen articles, written over a period of twenty years, is thematically divided into three sections: Science in the Medieval Hebrew Tradition: Socio-Cultural Considerations (two articles); Maimonides, Gersonides and Some Others (eight articles); and Reverberations of Greek Theory of Matter in Arabic and Hebrew (eight articles).
The fourth chapter accounts for philosophers after Maimonides, such as Gersonides, Falaquera, Jewish Averroists, and Isaac Abravanel.
95 A historian of ideas, Freudenthal (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) assembles 16 papers originally published between 1986 and 2002 on socio-cultural considerations of science in the medieval Hebrew traditions; Maimonides, Gersonides, and some others; and the reverberations of Greek theory of matter in Arabic and Hebrew.
 
 
 
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