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literature. Their zeal included the jobs of the Greek astronomers and
mathematical, Ptolemy Euclid, Archimedes and many others. Alfonso X
commissioned many Hebrews to co-operate with the real secretaries in
new translations that make older jobs Arabs on astronomy. You crave before
this, in 959 the monk Nicholas united him to the Jewish Chasdai in to translate
Dioscorides. The most greater part of the Jewish translators they were, however, not
Spanish, but Provencals and Italians. It is to theirs that we owe the
Israelite translations of Galen and Hippocrates on that Latin versions
it was based.
The preceding details, mere drops from an ocean of similar facts the show
what the Hebrews were the mediators between Moslem and Cristiano
learning in the Centuries Averages. According to Lecky, "the Hebrews were, the
you interpret principal to Western Europe of the Arabic culture." When it is
he/she remembered that the Arabic culture included for a lot of time the Greek, it
you/he/she will be seen that Lecky attributes a role of the to Jewish translators
before the importance in the history of science. Smoked bacon of Roger (1214-1294) it had
you crave first motto a similar thing: "Michael Scot asked the worth of
numerous translations. But it is sure that a Hebrew worked to them more
what he did. And so with the rest."
In what precedes, nothing has been said of the contributions of _original_
served as Jewish authors to the scientific literature. Hebrews were active in
original search especially in the astronomy, medicine and the mathematics.
Many Jewish writers famous as philosophers, Talmudists or poets, it was
also men of science. There are Jewish and numerous jobs on the calendar, on
astronomic tools and tables, on the mathematics, on medicine and
natural history. Some of their writers divide the medieval belief in
the astrology and the magic. But it is notable that Abraham Ibn Ezra doubted
the common belief in demons, while Maimonides described the astrology as
"that called error a science." These subjects are also however,
technical for strong treatment in the present book. More you/they will be found