Goldstein Goldstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 5013199 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Goldstein Goldstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Goldstein |
| FAMILY NAME | Goldstein |
| SIGNATURE | GOLDSTEIN G |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
United States and Allies Target Russia and Belarus with Sanctions and Other Economic Measures
Are you ready to close the United Nations? . . . If your answer is no, then
Levi ben Gerson and Augustinus Ricius on the Moon
In 1651, the Jesuit astronomer, Giovanni Battista Riccioli (1598–1671), published a map of the Moon with craters named after famous astronomers, without explaining the reasons for his choices. This paper addresses the basis for his decision to include craters named after Levi ben Gerson (1288–1344) and Augustinus Ricius (fl. 1513). It is argued that Riccioli’s only source of information on their astronomical work was a treatise by Ricius which Ri…
Fascism Now? Inquiries for an Expanded Frame
The Anti-Imperialist Horizon
If You Don’t They Will / no. NOT Ever
Astronomy in Hebrew in Istanbul: Abraham ben Yom Ṭov Yerushalmi (fl. 1510)
The only astronomical work by Abraham ben Yom Ṭov Yerushalmi is a set of instructions (or canons) in Hebrew for astronomical tables for which the tables are not extant. Abraham was active in Istanbul in the early sixteenth century and cited many previous authors of astronomical tables in Hebrew. The instructions include ways to use the tables for computing mean and true planetary positions as well as solar and lunar eclipses. According to a praye…
Scientific Methodology in Medieval Astronomy and Cosmology: The Case of Levi ben Gerson (1288–1344)
We distinguish between method and methodology and propose to illustrate the claim that methodology is essential to the acquisition of scientific knowledge in all periods. The case in point is Levi ben Gerson (d. 1344) and his creative response to the methodologies in astronomy and cosmology implicit in the works of Ptolemy (second century). We begin by outlining Ptolemy's methodological framework in astronomy, in which one key point is his depend…
Preliminary Remarks on Medieval Hebrew Trigonometric Tables
In this brief communication, tables for the trigonometric functions, sine, cosine, and versine, are explored as they appear in sets of medieval Hebrew astronomical tables. Based on this preliminary account, it seems that these tables are not closely related to one another.
The Alfonsine Tables in Hebrew
International audience
Three Tables for the Daily Positions of the Moon in a Fifteenth-Century Hebrew Manuscript
We present an analysis of three related tables, uniquely extant in Vatican, MS Heb. 384, for finding daily lunar positions in periods of 11,325 days (about 31 years), before and after January 1, 1400. This lunar period seems to have been unknown prior to the fourteenth century, when it appears in both Hebrew and Arabic astronomical texts from Spain and the Maghrib. Judging from the structure of these anonymous tables and the worked example, it is…
Crisis and Development: Menachem Begin's Leadership Throughout the 1960s
The article discusses the connection between crisis and legitimacy in Menachem Begin's political career and traces the process, which led to a far-reaching change in the identity of the Herut movement during the 1960s. Begin played a crucial role in removing barriers to this advancement, managing a number of issues by virtue of his leadership and special standing in his party. He succumbed to a number of deep crises and, to a large extent, also l…
A Table of New Moons from 1501 to 1577 in a Hebrew Fragment Preserved in the John Rylands Library
A hitherto unknown set of two tables, preserved on a single sheet inscribed on both sides in Hebrew, which was originally in the Cairo Geniza, is presented and analyzed. The purpose of these anonymous tables is to convert dates from the Jewish calendar to the Julian calendar for a 76-year cycle, beginning in 1501; the underlying method seems to be unprecedented. The basic information for each year is the date in March in the Julian calendar that …
Preliminary Remarks on the Astronomical Tables of Solomon Franco
The Spanish astronomer, Solomon Franco (fl. 1375), was a student of Joseph ben Waqār’s. Both of them had diverse scholarly interests in addition to astronomy. Franco’s astronomical tables in Hebrew are deeply indebted to those of Ibn al-Kammād (fl. 1115), which do not survive in the original Arabic. The extant Latin version of Ibn al-Kammād’s tables is essentially the same as the Hebrew version by Franco, though there are significant differences.…
Levi ben Gerson on the Principles of Cosmology
The Stigmatized Vernacular: Where Reflexivity Meets Untellability
The following introduces a special issue of the Journal of Folklore Research (49/2, 2012) that focuses on situations in which individuals and the vernaculars associated with them are stigmatized. Authors in the special issue explore issues of reflexivity, representation, and 'stigma veneration' as they emerged during research on type 2 diabetes, accounts of tobacco farming, chaotic narratives of trauma, and the quest for political asylum. Here, t…
Rethinking Ventriloquism: Untellability, Chaotic Narratives, Social Justice, and the Choice to Speak For, About, and Without
Over the years, our strategies of representation have been criticized for focusing on the integration of marginal voices by sometimes choosing to speak on behalf of underrepresented communities. Using examples from rape, domestic violence, and HIV 'deliberate' infection, this paper will explore issues that arise when considering representational ideology in the context of incoherent or chaotic narratives of traumatized and stigmatized research pa…
Levi ben Gerson and the Cross Staff Revisited
Abraham Zacut's Signature: A Mystery Solved
Levi ben Gerson on the Sources of Error in Astronomy
Levi ben Gerson (Gersonides, d. 1344) was an outstanding medieval astronomer whose contributions met the highest standards of the day. Chapter 58 of his Astronomy is devoted to his reasons for doubting some of the observations, as well as the consequences drawn from them, by ancient and medieval astronomers. His discussion reveals a profound understanding of the sources of error in astronomical observations, based in part on his own experience of…
We Have a Rendezvous With Destiny””—— The Rise and Fall of the Liberal Alternative
The struggle between the workers' parties and the right-wing Revisionists took an increasingly central place in Zionist history beginning in the 1930s. The Labor Movement gained political hegemony during the period of the Yishuv (pre-state Israel). When Jabotinsky tried to challenge Mapai's power position he suffered a bitter defeat. Most of Israel's first 13 years were marked by political polarity between Mapai and the Herut Movement (the latter…
Chronique des archives
commissions scolaires du diocse de Valleyfield, (fonds), 43, 2: 307 Association du troisime centenaire de Trois-Rivires inc., (rpertoire), 49, 2
Observations on crania of bedouin children, by age group
Resumé. — Les observations métriques et morphologiques de 112 crânes d'enfants Bédouins, âgés de 1 à 18 ans, sont analysés et comparés aux crânes adultes en vue de préciser les modalités de la croissance et du développement. Des données sur la croissance des enfants Bédouins vivants sont aussi utilisées. Il ressort que le crâne s'accroît beaucoup en longueur et en hauteur, peu en largeur. Ce sont les dimensions de la face qui présentent les chang…
The Stigmatized Vernacular: Where Reflexivity Meets Untellability
The following introduces a special issue of the Journal of Folklore Research (49/2, 2012) that focuses on situations in which individuals and the vernaculars associated with them are stigmatized. Authors in the special issue explore issues of reflexivity, representation, and 'stigma veneration' as they emerged during research on type 2 diabetes, accounts of tobacco farming, chaotic narratives of trauma, and the quest for political asylum. Here, t…
Rethinking Ventriloquism: Untellability, Chaotic Narratives, Social Justice, and the Choice to Speak For, About, and Without
Over the years, our strategies of representation have been criticized for focusing on the integration of marginal voices by sometimes choosing to speak on behalf of underrepresented communities. Using examples from rape, domestic violence, and HIV 'deliberate' infection, this paper will explore issues that arise when considering representational ideology in the context of incoherent or chaotic narratives of traumatized and stigmatized research pa…
Crisis and Development: Menachem Begin's Leadership Throughout the 1960s
The article discusses the connection between crisis and legitimacy in Menachem Begin's political career and traces the process, which led to a far-reaching change in the identity of the Herut movement during the 1960s. Begin played a crucial role in removing barriers to this advancement, managing a number of issues by virtue of his leadership and special standing in his party. He succumbed to a number of deep crises and, to a large extent, also l…
We Have a Rendezvous With Destiny””—— The Rise and Fall of the Liberal Alternative
The struggle between the workers' parties and the right-wing Revisionists took an increasingly central place in Zionist history beginning in the 1930s. The Labor Movement gained political hegemony during the period of the Yishuv (pre-state Israel). When Jabotinsky tried to challenge Mapai's power position he suffered a bitter defeat. Most of Israel's first 13 years were marked by political polarity between Mapai and the Herut Movement (the latter…
Observations on crania of bedouin children, by age group
Resumé. — Les observations métriques et morphologiques de 112 crânes d'enfants Bédouins, âgés de 1 à 18 ans, sont analysés et comparés aux crânes adultes en vue de préciser les modalités de la croissance et du développement. Des données sur la croissance des enfants Bédouins vivants sont aussi utilisées. Il ressort que le crâne s'accroît beaucoup en longueur et en hauteur, peu en largeur. Ce sont les dimensions de la face qui présentent les chang…
Chronique des archives
commissions scolaires du diocse de Valleyfield, (fonds), 43, 2: 307 Association du troisime centenaire de Trois-Rivires inc., (rpertoire), 49, 2
Levi ben Gerson on the Sources of Error in Astronomy
Levi ben Gerson (Gersonides, d. 1344) was an outstanding medieval astronomer whose contributions met the highest standards of the day. Chapter 58 of his Astronomy is devoted to his reasons for doubting some of the observations, as well as the consequences drawn from them, by ancient and medieval astronomers. His discussion reveals a profound understanding of the sources of error in astronomical observations, based in part on his own experience of…
We Have a Rendezvous With Destiny””—— The Rise and Fall of the Liberal Alternative
The struggle between the workers' parties and the right-wing Revisionists took an increasingly central place in Zionist history beginning in the 1930s. The Labor Movement gained political hegemony during the period of the Yishuv (pre-state Israel). When Jabotinsky tried to challenge Mapai's power position he suffered a bitter defeat. Most of Israel's first 13 years were marked by political polarity between Mapai and the Herut Movement (the latter…
Levi ben Gerson and the Cross Staff Revisited
Abraham Zacut's Signature: A Mystery Solved
Levi ben Gerson on the Principles of Cosmology
The Stigmatized Vernacular: Where Reflexivity Meets Untellability
The following introduces a special issue of the Journal of Folklore Research (49/2, 2012) that focuses on situations in which individuals and the vernaculars associated with them are stigmatized. Authors in the special issue explore issues of reflexivity, representation, and 'stigma veneration' as they emerged during research on type 2 diabetes, accounts of tobacco farming, chaotic narratives of trauma, and the quest for political asylum. Here, t…
Rethinking Ventriloquism: Untellability, Chaotic Narratives, Social Justice, and the Choice to Speak For, About, and Without
Over the years, our strategies of representation have been criticized for focusing on the integration of marginal voices by sometimes choosing to speak on behalf of underrepresented communities. Using examples from rape, domestic violence, and HIV 'deliberate' infection, this paper will explore issues that arise when considering representational ideology in the context of incoherent or chaotic narratives of traumatized and stigmatized research pa…
A Table of New Moons from 1501 to 1577 in a Hebrew Fragment Preserved in the John Rylands Library
A hitherto unknown set of two tables, preserved on a single sheet inscribed on both sides in Hebrew, which was originally in the Cairo Geniza, is presented and analyzed. The purpose of these anonymous tables is to convert dates from the Jewish calendar to the Julian calendar for a 76-year cycle, beginning in 1501; the underlying method seems to be unprecedented. The basic information for each year is the date in March in the Julian calendar that …
Preliminary Remarks on the Astronomical Tables of Solomon Franco
The Spanish astronomer, Solomon Franco (fl. 1375), was a student of Joseph ben Waqār’s. Both of them had diverse scholarly interests in addition to astronomy. Franco’s astronomical tables in Hebrew are deeply indebted to those of Ibn al-Kammād (fl. 1115), which do not survive in the original Arabic. The extant Latin version of Ibn al-Kammād’s tables is essentially the same as the Hebrew version by Franco, though there are significant differences.…
Three Tables for the Daily Positions of the Moon in a Fifteenth-Century Hebrew Manuscript
We present an analysis of three related tables, uniquely extant in Vatican, MS Heb. 384, for finding daily lunar positions in periods of 11,325 days (about 31 years), before and after January 1, 1400. This lunar period seems to have been unknown prior to the fourteenth century, when it appears in both Hebrew and Arabic astronomical texts from Spain and the Maghrib. Judging from the structure of these anonymous tables and the worked example, it is…
Crisis and Development: Menachem Begin's Leadership Throughout the 1960s
The article discusses the connection between crisis and legitimacy in Menachem Begin's political career and traces the process, which led to a far-reaching change in the identity of the Herut movement during the 1960s. Begin played a crucial role in removing barriers to this advancement, managing a number of issues by virtue of his leadership and special standing in his party. He succumbed to a number of deep crises and, to a large extent, also l…
Preliminary Remarks on Medieval Hebrew Trigonometric Tables
In this brief communication, tables for the trigonometric functions, sine, cosine, and versine, are explored as they appear in sets of medieval Hebrew astronomical tables. Based on this preliminary account, it seems that these tables are not closely related to one another.
The Alfonsine Tables in Hebrew
International audience
Astronomy in Hebrew in Istanbul: Abraham ben Yom Ṭov Yerushalmi (fl. 1510)
The only astronomical work by Abraham ben Yom Ṭov Yerushalmi is a set of instructions (or canons) in Hebrew for astronomical tables for which the tables are not extant. Abraham was active in Istanbul in the early sixteenth century and cited many previous authors of astronomical tables in Hebrew. The instructions include ways to use the tables for computing mean and true planetary positions as well as solar and lunar eclipses. According to a praye…
Scientific Methodology in Medieval Astronomy and Cosmology: The Case of Levi ben Gerson (1288–1344)
We distinguish between method and methodology and propose to illustrate the claim that methodology is essential to the acquisition of scientific knowledge in all periods. The case in point is Levi ben Gerson (d. 1344) and his creative response to the methodologies in astronomy and cosmology implicit in the works of Ptolemy (second century). We begin by outlining Ptolemy's methodological framework in astronomy, in which one key point is his depend…
Levi ben Gerson and Augustinus Ricius on the Moon
In 1651, the Jesuit astronomer, Giovanni Battista Riccioli (1598–1671), published a map of the Moon with craters named after famous astronomers, without explaining the reasons for his choices. This paper addresses the basis for his decision to include craters named after Levi ben Gerson (1288–1344) and Augustinus Ricius (fl. 1513). It is argued that Riccioli’s only source of information on their astronomical work was a treatise by Ricius which Ri…
Fascism Now? Inquiries for an Expanded Frame
The Anti-Imperialist Horizon
If You Don’t They Will / no. NOT Ever
United States and Allies Target Russia and Belarus with Sanctions and Other Economic Measures
Are you ready to close the United Nations? . . . If your answer is no, then
Philosophy (13 works) · Historical Astronomy and Related Studies (12 works) · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies (11 works) · History (8 works) · Hebrew (6 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Classics (5 works) · Mathematics (5 works)