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

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: $300

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author

GANS, DAVID.

printer

Israel b. Abraham

Place

Jessnitz

Publication

1743

Description

FIRST EDITION

references

Vinograd, Jessnitz 49.

summary

Latin introduction by Christian Hebenstreit, Professor of Hebrew in Leipzig, drawing attention to the keen influence the author 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, pp. 58-91.

ff. 82, pp. 20. Foxed. Mottled calf, rubbed and rebacked. 4to.

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