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  1. Questions of Methodology in Aristotle’s Zoology: A Medieval Perspective.Ahuva Gaziel - 2012 - Journal of the History of Biology 45 (2):329-352.
    During the Middle Ages Aristotle’s treatises were accessible to intellectuals via translations and commentaries. Among his works on natural philosophy, the zoological books received relatively little scholarly attention, though several medieval commentators carefully studied Aristotle’s investigations of the animal kingdom. Averroes completed in 1169 a commentary on an Arabic translation of Aristotle’s Parts of Animals and Generation of Animals. In 1323 Gersonides completed his supercommentary on a Hebrew translation of Averroes’ commentary. This article examines how these two medieval commentators interpret (...)
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  • The Physical Astronomy of Levi ben Gerson.Bernard R. Goldstein - 1997 - Perspectives on Science 5 (1):1-30.
    Levi ben Gerson (1288–1344) was a medieval astronomer who responded in an unusual way to the Ptolemaic tradition. He significantly modified Ptolemy’s lunar and planetary theories, in part by appealing to physical reasoning. Moreover, he depended on his own observations, with instruments he invented, rather than on observations he found in literary sources. As a result of his close attention to the variation in apparent planetary sizes, a subject entirely absent from the Almagest, he discovered a new phenomenon of Mars (...)
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  • How do Writings in the Early Astral Sciences Reveal Mathematical Practices and Practitioners?Matthieu Husson & Richard L. Kremer - 2016 - Centaurus 58 (1-2):1-5.
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  • (1 other version)The Status of Models in Ancient and Medieval Astronomy.Bernard R. Goldstein* - 1980 - Centaurus 24 (1):132-147.
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  • Intellect, substance, and motion in al-Farabi's cosmology.Damien Triffon Janos - unknown
    This dissertation offers a new and comprehensive analysis of Abū Naṣr al-Fārābī's cosmology by focusing on various important issues that have been largely neglected by the modern scholarship. It provides an examination of the physical, metaphysical, and astronomical aspects of al-Fārābī's cosmology by adopting a multidisciplinary approach that takes into account the history of philosophy and the history of astronomy. Accordingly, my dissertation explores how al-Fārābī attempted to reconcile features of Ptolemaic astronomy with Aristotelian and Neoplatonic theories, an endeavor which (...)
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  • Levi ben Gerson's Preliminary Lunar Model.Bernard R. Goldstein - 1974 - Centaurus 18 (4):275-288.
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  • Regiomontanus on ptolemy, physical orbs, and astronomical fictionalism: Goldsteinian themes in the "defense of theon against George of trebizond".Michael H. Shank - 2002 - Perspectives on Science 10 (2):179-207.
    : To honor Bernard Goldstein, this article highlights in the "Defense of Theon against George of Trebizond" by Regiomontanus (1436-1476) themes that resonate with leading strands of Goldstein's scholarship. I argue that, in this poorly-known work, Regiomontanus's mastery of Ptolemy's mathematical astronomy, his interest in making astronomy physical, and his homocentric ideals stand in unresolved tension. Each of these themes resonates with Gold- stein's fundamental work on the Almagest, the Planetary Hypotheses, and al-Bitruji's Principles of Astronomy. I flesh out these (...)
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  • Corrections and short notes on my papers.O. B. Sheynin - 1983 - Archive for History of Exact Sciences 28 (2):171-180.
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  • Exploring the Temporality of Complex Computational Practice: Two Eclipse Notes by John of Murs in the ms Escorial O II 10.Matthieu Husson - 2016 - Centaurus 58 (1-2):46-65.
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