How Long to Read The Astronomy of Levi ben Gerson (1288–1344)

How Long Does it Take to Read The Astronomy of Levi ben Gerson (1288–1344)?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 14 minutes to read The Astronomy of Levi ben Gerson (1288–1344) by Bernard R. Goldstein

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It would seem that S. Munk was the first modern scholar to draw attention to the significance of Levi ben Gerson's Astronomy, surely the most original work on astronomy written in Hebrew in the Middle Ages. Munk (1859, p. 500) called for a specialist to undertake a serious study of this work, but there was little response to his plea in the succeeding century. Indeed, this is the first edition of the Hebrew text of any part of Levi's Astronomy but for the table of contents (Renan, 1893, pp. 624-32), and the poems celebrating the invention of the Jacob Staff that appear in chapter 9 (Carlebach, 191Oa, pp. 152-53). The text of Levi's Astronomy is written in a ponderous Hebrew style but the content sparkles with originality. The Ptolemaic tradition is subjected to a profound critique based on the idea that the planetary models must conform both to Levi's own observations as well as those of the ancients, and the claim that astronomical theory must be philosophically sound. The enduring vigor of the Ptolemaic tradition has been characterized by O. Neugebauer as fol lows: "There is no better way to convince oneself of the inner coherence of ancient and medieval astronomy than to place side by side the Almagest, al BaWini's Opus astronomicum and Copernicus's De Revolutionibus. Chapter by chapter, theorem by theorem, table by table, these works run parallel" (1957, pp. 205-6).

How long is The Astronomy of Levi ben Gerson (1288–1344)?

The Astronomy of Levi ben Gerson (1288–1344) by Bernard R. Goldstein is 312 pages long, and a total of 78,624 words.

This makes it 105% the length of the average book. It also has 96% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Astronomy of Levi ben Gerson (1288–1344) Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 9 minutes to read The Astronomy of Levi ben Gerson (1288–1344) aloud.

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The Astronomy of Levi ben Gerson (1288–1344) is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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