Program

Research Programs: Translations

Period of Performance

12/1/1982 - 5/31/1984

Funding Totals

$30,000.00 (approved)
$30,000.00 (awarded)


Hebrew Scientific Texts of the Late Middle Ages

FAIN: RL-20335-82

University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, PA 15260-6133)
Bernard R. Goldstein (Project Director: July 1981 to October 1990)

To support translation of and extensive commentary on Hebrew scientific texts produced in the later Middle Ages in southern France. The project will give priority to the study of Levi ben Gerson (Gersonides), 14th-century scholar in the fields of scientific method and mathematical measurement.