A translation of the French biography of David Gans (1541-1613), a relatively little-studied pioneer of Jewish historiography and astronomy. Showing him in his Jewish intellectual and religious setting, and in his relation to Renaissance Prague where he lived, it is the first comprehensive study of his work and his intellectual environment, both in its Jewish aspect and with regard to the great spiritual revolutions of the sixteenth century.

Jewish Thought and the Scientific Revolution of the Sixteenth Century: David Gans, 1541-1613, and His Times (The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization) (English and French Edition)

Biographies & Memoirs

Neher, André

Community & Culture

Oxford University Press/Littman Library

The prophetic existence

A.S. Barnes

They Made Their Souls Anew (Suny Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture) (English and French Edition)

This is an original, philosophical discussion in which Andreå Neher relates the lives of prominent nineteenth- and twentieth-century Jews to traditional Jewish thought on issues of assimilation, the Holocaust, and liberal intellectualism.

They Made Their Souls Anew: Ils Ont Refait Leur Âme (Modern Jewish Lit Culture)

History

World

State University of New York Press

Prophètes et prophéties: L'essence du prophétisme

Religion & Spirituality

Other Eastern Religions & Sacred Texts

Payot *

Quelle est la place de la pensee juive au XVIe siecle dans les profondes mutations spirituelles provoquees par la decouverte de l'Amerique et la revolution de Copernic ? Quelle est la veritable dimension de l'humanisme juif de la Renaissance ? C'est a ces questions que repond Andre Neher dans ce nouveau livre, ouvrage d'erudition, certes, mais dont l'ecriture brillante et pittoresque en fait une lecture stimulante pour tous ceux que passionnent les grandes aventures de l'esprit. Le personnage central en est David Gans, dont les entretiens avec les celebres astronomes Tycho Brahe et Jean Kepler sont presentes a partir des documents inconnus jusqu'ici. Mais autour de lui se deploie toute une fresque de la Prague de la Renaissance ou David Gans, disciple fidele des plus eminents Rabbins de son epoque et en meme temps geographe et astronome de talent, apparait comme le symbole de la participation juive a l'elaboration des echelles modernes de la terre et du ciel.

David Gans (1541-1613), disciple du Maharal de Prague (Hors Collection: Langues) (French Edition)

Historical

Les Belles Lettres

Jérusalem : Vécu juif et message

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

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