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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Morrison, Robert

Titel

An Astronomical Treatise by Mūsā Jālīnūs alias Moses Galeano

Ist Teil von

• ALEPH: historical studies in science and judaism, 2011-07, Vol.11 (2), p.385-413

Ort / Verlag

Indiana University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This article presents an edition and translation of an astronomical text by Mūsā Jālīnūs (a.k.a. Moses Galeano) entitledAn Account of Some of the Impossibilities. The edition and translation is based on the only known manuscript, Istanbul Topkapı III Ahmet 3302/2 fol. 102b––109a, perhaps copied in the ninth Islamic century.An Account of Some of the Impossibilitiesis important for three reasons. First, it provides additional evidence for the identification of Mūsā Jālīnūs with Moses ben Judah Galeano. The final chapter of the text reproduces, verbatim, material from Joseph ibn Joseph ibn Namḥias'The Light of the World, a text to which Moses ben Judah Galeano referred in his Hebrew workTa'alumot Ḥokhmah (Puzzles of Wisdom). This final chapter is the second reason whyAn Account of Some of the Impossibilitiesis important, as it is evidence for the reception of Ibn NaḤmias'The Light of the World, the only known text on theoretical astronomy written by a Jew in any variety of Arabic. Third,An Account of Some of the Impossibilitiesis further evidence of scientific exchanges among Jews, Muslims, and Christians.