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This diagram of the cosmos is from a treatise on astronomy, Sefer mareh ha-ofanim (The Appearance of the Heavenly Beings), by Solomon ben Abraham Avigdor. The treatise was mostly a translation of…
Contributor:
Solomon ben Abraham Avigdor, Artist Unknown
Places:
Mantua, Italy
Date:
16th Century
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On the existence and nature of a great and awesome, holy world, which is situated beyond the equator, and whether it is possible that there is a settlement south of this equator, called zo…
Contributor:
Abraham Farissol
Places:
Ferrara, Papal States (Ferrara, Italy)
Date:
First Quarter of the 16th Century
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[ . . . ] Philo: I have already told you that the cognition of the generating nature is meant to direct them towards their natural perfection, without any other…
Contributor:
Judah Abravanel
Places:
Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
ca. 1512