Planets, potions, and parchments : scientifica Hebraica from the Dead Sea Scrolls to the eighteenth century / B. Barry Levy.
Barry Levy
كتابMore than 200 rare scientific manuscripts, books, maps, amulets, and magical texts have been brought together from renowned collections in Europe, Canada, Israel, Great Britain, and the United States specifically for this exhibition. The most famous among these is a fragment from the Dead Sea Scrolls containing chapters 81 to 85 from the Book of Psalms: fragments from the scrolls have been in Canada on only two other occasions. The exhibition will have an Assyrian cuneiform tablet from the seventh century BCE that describes treatments for eye ailments, a first edition Copernicus, and several texts by Maimonides, including one with marginal notes by Martin Luther. Also featured, in a rare Latin translation, is an Arabic medical book written by a Jew, demonstrating the international and inter-faith nature of the medieval scientific endeavour.
العنوان |
Planets, potions, and parchments [electronic resource] : scientifica Hebraica from the Dead Sea Scrolls to the eighteenth century / B. Barry Levy. |
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الناشر |
Montreal Buffalo : Published for the Jewish Public Library by McGill-Queen's University Press |
تاريخ الإصدار |
c1990 |
ملاحظات |
Catalogue of an exhibition presented by the Jewish Public Library, and held May-Sept. 1990 at the David M. Stewart Museum, Montréal. Includes bibliographical references (p. [136]-137) and index. English |
رقم الرف |
Front Matter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Of Whirlwinds and Crucibles -- God and Nature in Ancient Times -- Astronomy -- Mathematics and Geometry -- General Science -- Medicine -- Science and Religious Ritual -- Geography and Cartography -- Postscript -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index |
الشكل |
1 online resource (153 p.) |
اللغة |
الانكليزية |
رقم النظام |
997010716455405171 |
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