Aleph: Historical Studies in Science & Judaism. No. 2 (2002).

Octavo, paper covers with flaps, 309 pp. Articles are "Levi ben Gerson's Preliminary Remarks for a Theory of Planetary Latitudes," Bernard R. Goldstein, "Levi Ben Gerson's Star List for 1336," J.L. Mancha, "A Newly Discovered Letter by Galileo Galilei: Contacts Between Galileo and Jacob Rosales (Manoel Bocarro Frances), a Seventeenth-Century Jewish Scientist and Sebastianist," Francisco Moreo-Carvalho, "'The Ignorant Hold Back their Judgement and Await the Conclusions of the Knowing': Moses Mendelssohn and Other Mathematicians," Hans Lausch, "Some Jewish Responses to Smallpox Prevention in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries: A New Perspective on the Modernization of Euroepan Jewry," David B. Ruderman, "Why are Jews Preeminent in Science and Scholarship? The Veblen Thesis Reconsidered," David A. Hollinger, Discussion Forum: On Yehuda Liebes' recent 'Torat ha-yesiarh shel Sefer Yesirah,': "On the Beginnings of Hebrew Scienctific Literature and on Studying History Through 'Maqbilot' (Parallels)," Y. Tsvi Langermann, "Is There an Indian Connection to Sfer Yesirah," David Shulman, "Further Thoughts on the Origins of Sefer Yesirah," Steven M. Wasserstrom, "A Newly-Discovered Partial Hebrew Version of al-Khwarizmi's 'Algebra,'" Tony Levy, "On Gersonides' Knowledge of Languages," Ruth Glasner, "How Much Arabic Did Joseph Kaspi Know?" Cyril Aslanov, "Essay Review: Some Jewish Contributions to Iberian Astronomy: On a recent book by J. Chabas and B.R. Goldstein," J.D. North, "From My Notebooks," Y. Tzvi Langermann.…