Avner Ben-Zaken
Biographic Data
| ID | 1645853 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Avner Ben-Zaken |
| GIVEN NAMES | Avner |
| FAMILY NAME | Ben-Zaken |
| SIGNATURE | BEN-ZAKEN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ono College, Israel |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Afterword: De- and neotraditionalisation
Afterword: de-and neotraditionalisationOur essays are sharply different in tenor, concepts, vocabulary, disciplines and modes of analysis.This hardly comes as a surprise.It is to be expected that such differences manifest themselves in this broad comparative effort.Each contribution examines historically and culturally divergent forms of Vergesellschaftung as the societal and symbolic context of the processes of de-or neo-traditionalisation analy…
Traveling with the Picatrix: Cultural liminalities of science and magic
In his bold De hominis dignitate (On the Dignity of Man), dated 1486, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola claimed that natural magic originated in Persia and India. Zoroaster's magic, Pico continued, was the same divine art conveyed to Persian princes teaching 'how to rule according to the dogma of the world republic'. Toward the end of his oration, Pico discussed the origins of natural magic: Pythagoras, Empedocles, Democritus, and Plato, he explained…
Cultural History: Difficulties and Possibilities
The Revolving Planets and the Revolving Clocks: Circulating Mechanical Objects in the Mediterranean
In 1574 the Ottoman Sultan Murad III invited TaqI al-Din Muhammad Ibn-Ma'araf to build an observatory in Istanbul. Using his exceptional knowledge in the mechanical arts, TaqI al-Din constructed instruments and built mechanical clocks that he used in his observations of the comet of 1577. Such astronomical and mechanical activity was documented, in 1580, by an anonymous painter who illustrated some miniatures in a manuscript titled Shahinshahnama…
Cross-Cultural Scientific Exchanges in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1560–1660
Reading Ḥayy Ibn-Yaqẓān: A Cross-Cultural History of Autodidacticism
From Naples to Goa and Back: A Secretive Galilean Messenger and a Radical Hermeneutist
The heavens of the sky and the heavens of the heart: The Ottoman cultural context for the introduction of post-Copernican astronomy
In 1637 a Frenchman named Noël Duret (Durret) published a book in Paris that referred to the heliocentric Copernican system. In 1660 an Ottoman scholar named Ibrāhīm Efendi al-Zigetvari Tezkireci translated the book into Arabic. For more than three centuries this manuscript was buried in an Ottoman archive in Istanbul until it resurfaced at the beginning of the 1990s. The discovery of the Arabic text has necessitated a re-evaluation of the histor…
The heavens of the sky and the heavens of the heart: The Ottoman cultural context for the introduction of post-Copernican astronomy
In 1637 a Frenchman named Noël Duret (Durret) published a book in Paris that referred to the heliocentric Copernican system. In 1660 an Ottoman scholar named Ibrāhīm Efendi al-Zigetvari Tezkireci translated the book into Arabic. For more than three centuries this manuscript was buried in an Ottoman archive in Istanbul until it resurfaced at the beginning of the 1990s. The discovery of the Arabic text has necessitated a re-evaluation of the histor…
The heavens of the sky and the heavens of the heart: The Ottoman cultural context for the introduction of post-Copernican astronomy
In 1637 a Frenchman named Noël Duret (Durret) published a book in Paris that referred to the heliocentric Copernican system. In 1660 an Ottoman scholar named Ibrāhīm Efendi al-Zigetvari Tezkireci translated the book into Arabic. For more than three centuries this manuscript was buried in an Ottoman archive in Istanbul until it resurfaced at the beginning of the 1990s. The discovery of the Arabic text has necessitated a re-evaluation of the histor…
From Naples to Goa and Back: A Secretive Galilean Messenger and a Radical Hermeneutist
Cross-Cultural Scientific Exchanges in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1560–1660
Reading Ḥayy Ibn-Yaqẓān: A Cross-Cultural History of Autodidacticism
The Revolving Planets and the Revolving Clocks: Circulating Mechanical Objects in the Mediterranean
In 1574 the Ottoman Sultan Murad III invited TaqI al-Din Muhammad Ibn-Ma'araf to build an observatory in Istanbul. Using his exceptional knowledge in the mechanical arts, TaqI al-Din constructed instruments and built mechanical clocks that he used in his observations of the comet of 1577. Such astronomical and mechanical activity was documented, in 1580, by an anonymous painter who illustrated some miniatures in a manuscript titled Shahinshahnama…
Cultural History: Difficulties and Possibilities
Afterword: De- and neotraditionalisation
Afterword: de-and neotraditionalisationOur essays are sharply different in tenor, concepts, vocabulary, disciplines and modes of analysis.This hardly comes as a surprise.It is to be expected that such differences manifest themselves in this broad comparative effort.Each contribution examines historically and culturally divergent forms of Vergesellschaftung as the societal and symbolic context of the processes of de-or neo-traditionalisation analy…
Traveling with the Picatrix: Cultural liminalities of science and magic
In his bold De hominis dignitate (On the Dignity of Man), dated 1486, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola claimed that natural magic originated in Persia and India. Zoroaster's magic, Pico continued, was the same divine art conveyed to Persian princes teaching 'how to rule according to the dogma of the world republic'. Toward the end of his oration, Pico discussed the origins of natural magic: Pythagoras, Empedocles, Democritus, and Plato, he explained…
Historical Astronomy and Related Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Historical and Linguistic Studies (3 works) · History of Science and Medicine (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Astronomy (2 works) · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies (2 works)