Bernard R Goldstein

Datos Biográficos

ID460864
NOMBREBernard R Goldstein
NOMBRESBernard R
APELLIDOGoldstein
FIRMAGOLDSTEIN B R
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Pittsburgh
ORCID0000-0003-1794-8482
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS66
TOTAL DE CITAS34
TOTAL COMO AUTOR66
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1965
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2024
ÍNDICE H3

  • In memoriam José Chabás Bergón (1948–2024)

    Open AccessBernard R GoldsteinARTICLEAestimatio Sources and Studies in…2024

    José Chabás Bergón (or simply José Chabás), professor emeritus at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona), died on June 9, 2024 in Barcelona of complications following bypass surgery. His contributions to the study of astronomical tables significantly added to our knowledge of technical astronomy as practiced in the Middle Ages. Indeed, he was a leading scholar in this field. How to cite: Goldstein, B. R. "In memoriam José Chabás Bergón (1948–2024)"…

  • Nicholaus de Heybech of Erfurt, Table Maker and Copyist

    Open AccessJosé Chabás, Bernard R GoldsteinARTICLEAestimatio Sources and Studies in…2024

    Nicholaus de Heybech (fl. 1384–1394) is the author of a clever and compact solution to a major challenge for medieval astronomers: finding the time from mean to true syzygy. His table and associated canon for that purpose are now found in 30 manuscript copies, which means that this table was one of the most widely diffused single tables in Alfonsine astronomy. In this article, we present two different and hitherto unnoticed tables by Nicholaus de…

  • The Set of Alfonsine Tables Underlying Giovanni Bianchini’s Planetary Tables

    Open AccessJosé Chabás, Bernard R GoldsteinARTICLEAestimatio Sources and Studies in…2023

    The analysis of astronomical tables has proven to be a powerful tool to understand the transmission of astronomical knowledge. Further, the study of the major sets of tables compiled or in circulation in the Middle Ages has contributed significantly to mapping the thousands of tables preserved in medieval manuscripts. The present paper focuses on the relationship between two specific sets of tables, both in the framework of Alfonsine astronomy: o…

  • The Tabulae Eclypsium by Giovanni Bianchini

    Open AccessJosé Chabás, Bernard R GoldsteinARTICLEAestimatio Sources and Studies in…2021

    The Tabulae eclypsium by Giovanni Bianchini (d. after 1469) was part of a larger work, the Flores Almagesti, on mathematical astronomy. In his work on eclipses, which hitherto has not been studied in depth, Bianchini compiled new tables, strictly adhering to Ptolemy’s procedures, and explained their use by means of worked examples to facilitate the task of computers. Bianchini’s works were influential among his contemporaries, especially Peurbach…

  • Maxwell's role in turning the concept of model into the methodology of modeling

    Open AccessGiora Hon, Bernard R GoldsteinARTICLEStudies in History and Philosophy…2021Referencias: 13

  • The Alfonsine Tables in Hebrew

    Open AccessBernard R Goldstein, Goldstein GoldsteinARTICLEAleph2019

    International audience

  • A Report in Hebrew of a Bright Object in the Sky in 1473

    Bernard R Goldstein, Bernard R Goldstein Bernard R GoldsteinARTICLEAleph2018

    The bright object (probably an auroral display) was observed in Lecce, Italy, and it is described briefly in this report, followed by a remark on a conjunction of Saturn and Mars that took place soon thereafter.

  • Notes on Hebrew Lists of Geographical Coordinates of Cities

    Bernard R Goldstein, Bernard R Goldstein Bernard R GoldsteinARTICLEAleph2018

    Two late medieval Hebrew manuscripts that include lists of the longitudes and latitudes of cities are of interest because they explain the use of two different prime meridians that are 171⁄2° apart. It is argued that the discussion in one Hebrew manuscript is a translation of a Latin text of unknown authorship, published in 1483, but which must have already been available in 1460, the date of the Hebrew translation.

  • The Introduction to Immanuel ben Jacob Bonfils' Tables for 1340

    Bernard R Goldstein, Bernard R Goldstein Bernard R GoldsteinARTICLEAleph2017

    Immanuel ben Jacob Bonfils ( fl . 1350) of Tarascon in southern France composed a set of planetary tables in Hebrew for 1340 and a treatise in Hebrew called ʿEreḵ ha-ḥilluf , an expression that refers to the equation of time. The contents of these tables have been treated elsewhere; this brief communication focuses on some textual peculiarities in the manuscripts of both the introduction (or canons) to the tables and the treatise, illustrated by …

  • The Astronomical Tables of Isaac ben Joseph Israeli of Toledo

    Bernard R Goldstein, Bernard R Goldstein Bernard R Goldstein et al.ARTICLEAleph2017

    Isaac Israeli (early fourteenth century) is best known for Yesod ʿolam (Berlin, 1846–1848), a treatise on astronomy and chronology. Here our focus is on his astronomical tables, mainly those in his unpublished Šaʿar ha-šamayim, which have not been studied previously. We present an analysis of some of these tables, preserved in various manuscripts, and find that they are largely dependent on similar sets of tables available at the time in Spain. O…

  • Maxwell’s contrived analogy

    Open AccessGiora Hon, Bernard R GoldsteinARTICLEStudies in History and Philosophy…2012

  • John of Murs's Tables of 1321

    Open AccessJosé Chabás, Bernard R GoldsteinARTICLEJournal for the History of…2009

  • The Status of Models in Ancient and Medieval Astronomy

    Open AccessBernard R GoldsteinARTICLECentaurus2008

  • Symmetry and asymmetry in electrodynamics from Rowland to Einstein

    Open AccessGiora Hon, Bernard R GoldsteinARTICLEStudies in History and Philosophy…2006

  • Unpacking “For Reasons of Symmetry”

    Open AccessGiora Hon, Bernard R GoldsteinARTICLEPhilosophy of Science2006Citada por: 1Referencias: 18

    Hermann Weyl succeeded in presenting a consistent overarching analysis that accounts for symmetry in (1) material artifacts, (2) natural phenomena, and (3) physical theories. Weyl showed that group theory is the underlying mathematical structure for symmetry in all three domains. But in this study Weyl did not include appeals to symmetry arguments which, for example, Einstein expressed as “for reasons of symmetry” ( wegen der Symmetrie; aus Symme…

  • Colors of Eclipses in Medieval Hebrew Astronomical Tables

    Bernard R GoldsteinARTICLEAleph2005

    Medieval interest in physical astronomy has been relatively neglected compared to positional astronomy. In this paper tables for colors of solar and lunar eclipses in Hebrew manuscripts are examined, and it is argued that they all depend on a tradition which came to the Islamic world from India. Some of these tables are in Arabic written in Hebrew characters. This tradition continued in the Latin West and is represented in the editio princeps of …

  • From proportion to balance

    Open AccessGiora Hon, Bernard R GoldsteinARTICLEStudies in History and Philosophy…2005Citada por: 2Referencias: 2

  • To the Editor

    José Chabás, Bernard R GoldsteinARTICLEIsis2004

  • Patronage and the Production of De Revolutionibus

    Open AccessPeter Barker, Bernard R GoldsteinARTICLEJournal for the History of…2003

    Les historiens ont montre l'importance du patronage dans la comprehension du developpement scientifique aux XVI e et XVII e siecles. Copernic reste l'un des savants les plus representatifs du patronage en astronomie et l'A. analyse les relations du patronage qui ont influence la production de De revolutionibus

  • Levi ben Gerson's Preliminary Remarks for a Theory of Planetary Latitudes

    Bernard R GoldsteinARTICLEAleph2002

    Levi ben Gerson (Gersonides, d. 1344) was an outstanding medieval astronomer who sought to improve Ptolemy's account of planetary motion both in longitude and latitude. In this article we consider the models he proposed for planetary latitudes. These geometric models are difficult to interpret and the focus here is on the non-technical discussions that surround the descriptions of them, including text, translation, and commentary on chapters 123,…

  • Science as a 'Neutral Zone' for Interreligious Cooperation

    Bernard R GoldsteinARTICLEEarly Science and Medicine2002

  • Astronomy and the Jewish Community in Early Islam

    Bernard R GoldsteinARTICLEAleph2001

    Islam in the early Abbasid period was generally tolerant of religious diversity, but something much more surprising happened as well. An intellectual domain was created in which Muslims and non-Muslims were able to participate equally without compromising their separate identities. The extent of this domain may be difficult to determine, but astronomy and astrology were certainly elements in it. The effective founder of the Abbasid dynasty, the s…

  • Theological Foundations of Kepler's Astronomy

    Peter Barker, Bernard R GoldsteinARTICLEOsiris2001Citada por: 2

  • Astronomy in the Iberian Peninsula

    José Chabás, Bernard R GoldsteinARTICLETransactions of the American…2000

  • Astronomy and Astrology in the Works of Abraham ibn Ezra

    Open AccessBernard R GoldsteinARTICLEArabic Sciences and Philosophy1996

    Abraham ibn Ezra the Spaniard (d. 1167) was one of the foremost transmitters of Arabic science to the West. His astrological and astronomical works, written in Hebrew and later translated into Latin, were considered authoritative by many medieval Jewish and Christian scholars. Some of the works he translated from Arabic are no longer extant in their original form, and on occasion his treatises provide information about earlier sources that is oth…