Gersonides (19 results)

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. includes dust-jacket. DETAILS: good dust-jacket, worn around edges, cover price $23.95, minor light pencil notations in margin on a few pages only, otherwise very good lightly used black cloth. previous owner's name / LAID IN: photocopy of announcement of the three-volume work. GERSHOM (GERSONIDES), LEVI BEN. The wars of the Lord. Volume One: Book One: Immortality of the soul. Translated with an introduction and notes by Seymour Feldman. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1984, viii, 256pp., . Jacket flaps lamination a bit sticky, clings to endpapers but easily lifted. - ONLY VOLUME ONE with a few minor markings. 9780827602205 ISBN 0827602200.…

Softbound. Condition: Good. Octavo, paper covers with surface wear near the base of the spine, xii, 323 pp., selected bibliography, index, ink-stamps, soiling to the rear inside cover Mediaeval Sources in Translation, 19.

Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Condition: VERY GOOD. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 256pp. Sewn binding in black cloth, gilt spine lettering. Ex-library; exceedingly clean and sharp with sound binding and no evidence of use; DJ moderately rubbed. From the Ernest L. Martin collection with his bookplate. Shipped professionally in a box. …

Condition: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Full found black cloth, 256 pages. Translated with an introduction and notes by: Seymour Feldman. "This work examines in detail most of the controversial issues that had preoccupied the medieval mind: immortality of the human soul, prophecy, human freedom, divine Providence, creation of the world, miracles. This is the first complete rendering of Gersonides' magnum opus into any modern language." This book is in fine condition the jacket has trivial ware to corner tips.…

Hardbound. Condition: Very Good. Octavo in dust jacket, xxxii, 161 pp., notes, works cited, index Translated from the Hebrew with an Introduction & Annotations by Menahem Keller.

Hardbound. Condition: Good. First Edition. Octavos in dust jacket, frontispiece illustration, xiv, 3-580 pp., Appendix: Gersonides and Astrology, byTzvi Langermann, bibliography, critical apparatus to Books Five and Six, index Translated with an introduction and notes by Seymour Feldman.

Condition: very_good. This book is in Very good condition. There may be a few flaws like shelf wear and some light wear.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Softcover. Hint only of handling wear. Clean, tight, and unmarked. Bibliography, indexes. Very neat -- a sound and handsome copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Paperback, 335 p., 130 x 195 mm. ISBN 9780888442680. Languages : English. 0 g.

paperback. Condition: Good. Good. Dust Jacket NOT present. CD WILL BE MISSING. . SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.

Condition: gut. Wars of the Lord, Treatise Three On God's Knowledge In englischer Sprache. pages.

THIS VOLUME ONLY. 24.5x16 cm. IX+278 pages. Gilt hardcover with dust jacket. In good condition. The book is in : English.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. xxi, 422 pp, 1 leaf. Original cloth. Near Fine, in dust jacket (the front flap of the dust jacket is unevenly sunned). This copy does NOT have any library markings. First Edition. Collection de Travaux de L'Académie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences, Tome 36. ISBN 9004096418.…

8vo. xiv, 139, 100 pp. In German and Hebrew. Quarter black cloth with marbled paper boards, manuscript title info on spine label; inner hinges mended with tape repair (performed neatly). Burndy bookplate. Very good. Rare. Levi ben Gershon, better known by his Graecized name as Gersonides, or by his Latinized name Magister Leo Hebraeus, or in Hebrew by the abbreviation of first letters as RaLBaG, was a medieval French Jewish philosopher, Talmudist, mathematician, physician and astronomer/astrologer. "Lange (1909) completed a critical edition of Maaseh Hoshev with a translation to German in 1909, but the last section of problems is completely missing, and other minor omissions were caused by Langeâs lack of access to all the extant manuscripts. A critical edition of the problem section appears in Simonson (forthcoming)." [Shai Simonson, "The Mathematics of Levi ben Gershon." Mathematics Teacher, Vol. 93, No. 8, November 2000. / Dr. Gerson Lange, Leader of the Rabbinate in Warburg, Germany & later Director of School of R. Samson Raphael Hirsch in Frankfurt am Main.…

Hardcover & Dust Jacket. Condition: Good. Six books in three volumes sfep djs worn Discusses in detail issues that preoccupied the medieval mind-immortality of the soul,prophecy, human freedom, divine providence, creation of the world, miracles, dreams . Levi Ben Gersonides of Provence known as Gersonides (1288-1344) was one of the most creative and daring minds within the medieval Jewish world. pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 463pp. Text in Hebrew. Nicely rebound in black cloth.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. In Hebrew. 18 x 14 cm. 40, 27 leaves =134 pages). Some browning and staining. Vinograd 27; Steinschneider 6138, 8 column 1612; Adams I, page 6434, number 605; Zedner page 432; Roest 672. OCLC: Libraries worldwide that own item: 4. Top margin of the title page has a very old Hebrew inscription that is obscured by a line, possibly in Latin, that a later owner intentionally wrote over it. Extracts from each book of the Bible, the ethical, philosophical, and religious teachings that may be gleaned from the text by R. Levi b. Gershom. Levi ben Gershon (Born 1288 in Bagnols-sur-Cèze, Languedoc, France - Died 1344 in Perpignan, France), better known by his Latinised name as Gersonides or the abbreviation of first letters as RaLBaG, was a philosopher, Talmudist, mathematician and astronomer and astrologer. According to Abraham Zacuto and others, he was the son of Gerson ben Solomon Catalan. As in the case of the other medieval Jewish philosophers little is known of his life. His family had been distinguished for piety and exegetical skill in Talmud, but though he was known in the Jewish community for his commentaries on certain books of the Bible, he apparently never accepted any rabbinical post. It has been suggested that his unique opinions may have put obstacles in the way of his preferment. He is known to have been at Avignon and Orange during his life, and is believed to have died in 1344, though Zacuto asserts that he died at Perpignan in 1370. In contrast to the theology held by other Jewish thinkers, Gersonides held that God does not have complete foreknowledge of human acts. Bothered by the old question of how God's foreknowledge is compatible with human freedom, Gersonides holds that what God knows beforehand is all the choices open to each individual. not the choice the individual will make. Gersonides made some remarkable discoveries in the field of astronomy. He was the only astronomer before modern times to have estimated correctly stellar distances. Whereas all other astronomers put the stars on a rotating sphere just beyond the outer planets, Gersonides estimated, correctly, that the distance to the stars was ten billion times greater. Using data he collected from his own observations Gersonides refuted Ptolemy's model. He reviewed Ptolemy's model with its epicycles and realized that it could be checked by measuring the changes in the apparent brightnesses of Mars and looking for cyclical changes along the conjectured epicycles. These thus ceased being dogma, they were a theory that had to be experimentally verified, "a la Popper". Gersonides developed tools for these measurements, essentially pinholes and the camera obscura. The results of his observations did not fit Ptolemy's model at all and so Gersonides concluded that the Ptolemy model was no good, but he was not able to successfully improve on it. That challenge was finally answered by Copernicus three centuries later. Levi also showed that Ptolemy's model for the Lunar orbit, though reproducing correctly the evolution of the Moon's position, fails completely in predicting the apparent sizes of the Moon in its motion. Curiously, his findings had no impact on later generations of astronomers, even though Gersonides' writings were translated and available. Perhaps no other medieval Jewish philosopher has been so maligned over the centuries as Gersonides. Indeed, his major philosophical work, Sefer Milhamot Ha-Shem (The War of the Lord, 1329), was called "Wars against the Lord" by one of his opponents. Despite the vilification of his position, Gersonides emerges as one of the most significant and comprehensive thinkers in the medieval Jewish tradition. He has been constantly quoted (even if only to be criticized), and, through the works of Hasdai Crescas and others, Gersonides' ideas have influenced such thinkers as Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Benedict de Spinoza.…

Leipzig, Verlag Carl B. Lorck, 1866. 4, 463 pp. First 3 leaves damaged (partly detached) without loss of text.Modern cloth with gilt lettering. HEBREW text. Friedberg, p. 610, nr.1984/2.