Nechmad Vena’im [on astronomy, geography, as well as a rejection of astrology in Jewish tradition]

GANS, DAVID.

Israel b. Abraham

Jessnitz

1743

FIRST EDITION. Title within architectural arch. Numerous astronomical diagrams. Introduction in Latin (often lacking)

Vinograd, Jessnitz 49

Latin introduction by Christian Hebenstreit, Professor of Hebrew in Leipzig, drawing attention to the keen influence Gans received from the theories of the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, with whom Gans worked in Prague. See A. Neher, Jewish Thought and the Scientific Revolution of the Sixteenth Century: David Gans (1541-1613) and His Times (1986) pp. 58-91