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Jewish Thought and Scientific Discovery in Early Modern Europe
Written by author David B. Ruderman
Published by Wayne State University Press, March 2001
Jewish Thought and Scientific Discovery in Early Modern Europe is a major contribution in understanding the cultural processes involved in the emergence and development of the consumer phase of science. It covers many Jewish authors and their writings fro
This book is the first to examine closely the interaction between Jewish culture, medicine, and science from the late sixteenth to the late eighteenth centuries, Europe's age of "scientific revolution." Ruderman argues that during this era Jewish cult

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Introduction 1
Ch. 1 Medieval Jewish Attitudes toward Nature and Scientific Activity 14
Ch. 2 The Legitimation of Scientific Activity among Central and Eastern European Jews 54
Ch. 3 Padua and the Formation of a Jewish Medical Community in Italy 100
Ch. 4 Can a Scholar of the Natural Sciences Take the Kabbalah Seriously?: The Divergent Positions of Leone Modena and Joseph Delmedigo 118
Ch. 5 Science and Skepticism: Simone Luzzatto on Perceiving the Natural World 153
Ch. 6 Between High and Low Cultures: Echoes of the New Science in the Writings of Judah Del Bene and Azariah Figo 185
Ch. 7 Kabbalah, Science, and Christian Polemics: The Debate between Samson Morpurgo and Solomon Aviad Sar Shalom Basilea 213
Ch. 8 On the Diffusion of Scientific Knowledge within the Jewish Community: The Medical Textbook of Tobias Cohen 229
Ch. 9 Contemporary Science and Jewish Law in the Eyes of Isaac Lampronti and His Rabbinic Interlocutors 256
Ch. 10 The Community of Converso Physicians: Race, Medicine, and the Shaping of a Cultural Identity 273
Ch. 11 A Jewish Thinker in Newtonian England: David Nieto and His Defense of the Jewish Faith 310
Ch. 12 Physico-Theology and Jewish Thought at the End of the Eighteenth Century: Mordechai Schnaber Levison and Some of His Contemporaries 332
Epilogue 369
Bibliographic Essay: The Study of Nature in Ancient Judaism 375
Index 383

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	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
Ch. 1	Medieval Jewish Attitudes toward Nature and Scientific Activity	14
Ch. 2	The Legitimation of Scientific Activity among Central and Eastern European Jews	54
Ch. 3	Padua and the Formation of a Jewish Medical Community in Italy	100
Ch. 4	Can a Scholar of the Natural Sciences Take the Kabbalah Seriously?: The Divergent Positions of Leone Modena and Joseph Delmedigo	118
Ch. 5	Science and Skepticism: Simone Luzzatto on Perceiving the Natural World	153
Ch. 6	Between High and Low Cultures: Echoes of the New Science in the Writings of Judah Del Bene and Azariah Figo	185
Ch. 7	Kabbalah, Science, and Christian Polemics: The Debate between Samson Morpurgo and Solomon Aviad Sar Shalom Basilea	213
Ch. 8	On the Diffusion of Scientific Knowledge within the Jewish Community: The Medical Textbook of Tobias Cohen	229
Ch. 9	Contemporary Science and Jewish Law in the Eyes of Isaac Lampronti and His Rabbinic Interlocutors	256
Ch. 10	The Community of Converso Physicians: Race, Medicine, and the Shaping of a Cultural Identity	273
Ch. 11	A Jewish Thinker in Newtonian England: David Nieto and His Defense of the Jewish Faith	310
Ch. 12	Physico-Theology and Jewish Thought at the End of the Eighteenth Century: Mordechai Schnaber Levison and Some of His Contemporaries	332
	Epilogue	369
	Bibliographic Essay: The Study of Nature in Ancient Judaism	375
	Index	383