TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brown,Jeremy
TI  - New heavens and a new earth: the Jewish reception of Copernican thought
SN  - 9780199754793 (hardcover : alk. paper)
AV  - BM538.A76 B76 2013
U1  - 296.375 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Copernicus, Nicolaus,
KW  - Judaism and science
KW  - Astronomy
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Judaism
KW  - History
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-384) and index; Chapt. 1. Nicolas Copernicus and his revolution -- Chapt. 2. The Talmudic view of the universe -- Chapt. 3. David Gans and the first mention of Copernicus in Hebrew literature -- Chapt. 4. The first Jewish Copernican: Rabbi Joseph Solomon Delmedigo -- Chapt. 5. Copernicus is the son of Satan: the first Jewish rejections of Copernicus -- Chapt. 6. David Nieto and Copernicanism in London -- Chapt. 7. The Jewish encyclopedias -- Chapt. 8. The eighteenth century: Jews and Copernicus in the Newtonian era -- Chapt. 10. The nineteenth century: Copernicus without hesitation -- Chapt. 11. Let Copernicus and a thousand like him be removed from the world: Reuven Landau's rejection -- Chapt. 12. The modern period -- Chapt. 13. Relativity and contemporary Jewish geocentrists -- Chapt. 14. Conclusions
ER  -