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57Mineralogy, Botany and Zoology in Medieval Hebrew EncyclopaediasArabic Sciences and Philosophy 6 (2): 263. 1996.There are three principal philosophical-scientific encyclopaedias written in Hebrew during the Middle Ages: Yehudah ha-Cohen's Midrash ha-okmah, rather than such texts as pseudo-Aristotle 's De lapidibus and Nicolaus Damascenus' De plantis. In particular, Falaquera's encyclopaedia represents the most convincing effort to provide a truly scientific discussion of mineralogy and botany, comparable to that of his contemporary Albert the Great, and based upon the Brethren, Avicenna and, maybe, some l…Read more
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Una disputa sugli universali nella logica ebraica del Trecento. Shemuel di Marsiglia contro Gersonide nel Supercommentario all'Isagoge di Yehudah ben Ishaq CohenDocumenti E Studi Sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale 11 409-458. 2000.Unico testimone superstite della disputa sugli universali fra i filosofi ebrei Shemuel di Marsiglia e Gersonide è il Supercommentario al Commento medio di Averroè all'Isagoge e alle Categorie di Yehudah ben Yishaq Cohen, redatto probabilmente in Provenza verso la metà del '400, dopo che Yehudah ebbe ascoltato a Bologna una disputa pubblica sul tema degli universali. Dopo aver esaminato la struttura di questo testo e le sue fonti, tra le quali si segnalano Pietro Aureoli e Gentile da Foligno, l'A…Read more
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Sulla tradizione ebraica di alcuni commenti arabi alla «Metafisica»Documenti E Studi Sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale 12 155-177. 2001.
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1Hebrew Scholasticism in the Fiftheenth Century. A History and Source BookTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 69 (3): 579-580. 2007.
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56About Todros Todrosi's Medieval Hebrew Translation of al-Fārābī's Lost Long Commentary/gloss-commentary On Aristotle's Topics, Book VIIIHistory and Philosophy of Logic 32 (1): 37-45. 2011.Among the many logical works by Abū Nasr Muhammad al-Fārābī (870–950), there are two commentaries on particular books or points of Aristotle's Topics, whose original Arabic text has been apparently lost. A number of quotations of one or both of them, translated into Hebrew, has been recently found in a philosophical anthology by a fourteenth-century Provençal Jewish scholar, Todros Todrosi. In this article, a detailed list of these quotations is given, and a tentative short examination of the co…Read more
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The Revisions of Qalonymos ben Qalonymos's Medieval Hebrew Version of Averroes's «Middle Commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics»Documenti E Studi Sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale 21 457-473. 2010.
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10Al-Fārābī, Latin Translations ofIn H. Lagerlund (ed.), Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy, Springer. pp. 352--354. 2011.
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