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A Fourteenth-Century Scientific-Philosophical Controversy: Jedaiah ha-Penini's Treatise on Opposite Motions and Book of Confutation (Jerusalem, 1998) (Hebrew).

Averroes' Physics: A Turning Point in Medieval Natural Philosophy  (Oxford, 2009).

Resianne Fontaine, Ruth Glasner, Reimund Leicht, Giuseppe Veltri (eds.) Studies in the History of Culture and Science: A Tribute to Gad Freudenthal (Leiden, 2011).

 

Selected papers

"An Unknown commentary by Levi ben Gershom", Kiriat Sefer 64 (1992/3): 1101 (Hebrew).

"The Latin and Hebrew Versions of De celo et mundo Attributed to Ibn Sina", Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 6 (1996): 89-112.

"Levi ben Gershom and the Study of Ibn Rushd in the 14th Century", Jewish Quarterly Review 86 (1995): 51-90. 

"Gersonides' Theory of Natural Motion", Early Science and Medicine 1 (1996):151-203.

"The Early Stages in the Evolution of  The Wars of the Lord", Jewish Quarterly Review, 87 (1996) 1-46.

"Gersonides on Simple and Composite Motion", Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 27 (1996), 545-584.

"Gersonides'  Lost Commentary on the Metaphysics", Medieval Encounters 4 (1998), 130-157.

"Yeda`ya ha-Penini's Unusual Conception of Void", Science in Context 10 (1997), 453-470.

"The Question of Celestial Matter in the Hebrew Encyclopedias", in S. Harvey (ed.)  Medieval Hebrew Encyclopedias of Science and Philosophy (Dordrecht, 2000), 313-334.

"Ibn Rushd's Theory of minima naturalia", Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 11 (2001)  9-26.

"New Information on Zeno of Elea’s Argument from Bisection", Aleph 1 (2000) 285-293.

 "On Gersonides’ Knowledge of Languages", Aleph, 2 (2002), 235-257.

 "Dynamics", in Sandro Petruccioli (Editor-in Chief), Storia della Scienza, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, under the auspices of the Académie International d'Histoire des Sciences, vol. 3.

“On the Question of Gersonides’  Acquaintance with Scholastic Philosophy” in C. Sirat, S. Klein-Braslavy et O. Weijers (eds.), Les méthodes de travail de Gersonide (Paris, 2003), 281-287.

“On the Writing of Gersonides’  Philosophical Commentaries”, in C. Sirat, S. Klein-Braslavy et O. Weijers (eds.), Les méthodes de travail de Gersonide (Paris, 2003), 90-103.

“Gersonides Unusual Position on ‘Position’", in: Peter Barker, Alan C. Bowen, José Chabás, Gad Freudenthal, and Y. Tzvi Langermann (eds.), Astronomy and Astrology from the Babylonians to Kepler: Essays Presented to Bernard R. Goldstein on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday (= Centaurus  45 (2003), 249-263.


“Textual Criticism in Hebrew Supercommentaries on Aristotle”,  in J.H. Hamesse et O. Weijers (eds.)  Écriture et réécriture des textes philosophiques médiévaux. Mélanges offerts à C. Sirat (Turnhout Belgium, 2006), 185-194.

“The Evolution of the Introduction in Averroes’ Commentaries: A Preliminary Study”,  in J.B. Brenet (ed.) Averroes et les averroïsmes juif et latin,  (Turnhout Belgium, 2007), 141-150.

“Two Notes on the Identification of Some Anonymous Hebrew Commentaries on the Physics”, Aleph 9 (2009), 319-328.

“The Evolution of the Genre of the Philosophical-Scientific Commentary: the Hebrew Supercommentaries on Aristotle's Physics". Forthcoming in G. Freudenthal (ed.) Science in Medieval Jewish Cultures. Forthcoming in Cambridge UP.

“The Peculiar History of Aristotelianism among Spanish Jews”, in R. Fontaine, R. Glasner, R. Leicht, G. Veltri (eds.) Studies in the History of Culture and Science, 361-381. 

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