Planets, potions and parchments [electronic resource] : scientific Hebraica from the Dead Sea scrolls to the eighteenth century / B. Barry Levy.
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TextPublication details: Montreal, Que. : Published for the Jewish Public Library by McGill-Queen's University Press, c1990Description: 1 online resource (xii, 139 p.) : ill. (some col.)ISBN: 0773507914 (pbk.); 9780773507913 (pbk.); 0773507930 (bound); 9780773507937 (bound); 9780773562660 (electronic bk.); 0773562664 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Science -- History -- Sources -- Bibliography -- Exhibitions | Medicine -- History -- Sources -- Bibliography -- Exhibitions | Navigation -- History -- Sources -- Bibliography -- Exhibitions | Hebrew imprints -- Bibliography -- Exhibitions | Book Imprints -- History -- Exhibitions | Jews -- History -- Exhibitions | Manuscripts as Topic -- History -- Exhibitions | Science -- History -- Exhibitions | Jewish scientists -- Early works to 1800 | Science -- Early works to 1800 | Jews -- Medicine -- Early works to 1800 | Hebrew imprints | Manuscripts, Hebrew | Jewish illumination of books and manuscripts | Sciences -- Histoire -- Sources -- Bibliographie -- Expositions | M�edecine -- Histoire -- Sources -- Bibliographie -- Expositions | Imprim�es h�ebra�iques -- Bibliographie -- Expositions | SCIENCE -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Planets, potions, and parchments.DDC classification: 016.509 LOC classification: Q105.C32 | L487 1990ebNLM classification: Q 128Online resources: EBSCOhost Catalogue of an exhibition presented by the Jewish Public Library, and held May-Sept. 1990 at the David M. Stewart Museum, Montr�eal.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [136]-137) and index.
Introduction: Of Whirlwinds and Crucibles -- God and Nature in Ancient Times -- Astronomy -- Mathematics and Geometry -- General Science -- Medicine -- Science and Religious Ritual -- Geography and Cartography.
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