Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors Cyril Aslanov teaches French and Romance linguistics at the Hebrew University ofJerusalem. He has recently published a monograph on Joseph Kaspi: Le provençal des Juifs et l'hébreu en Provence: Le dictionnaire Sharherot hakesef de Joseph Caspi (Leuven: Peeters, 2001). Francisco Moreno Carvalho, a physician, is a Ph.D. student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has worked at the Edelstein Collection of the Jewish National and University Library, Jerusalem, and collaborated on the Oxford Dictionary oftheJewish Religion. He has published articles on Jewish physicians of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, especially about the intellectual role of Portuguese Jewish physicians in the history of medicine. He is the co-author of a recently published book in Portuguese on the history of the Jewish community of Pernambuco, Brazil, in the seventeenth century. E-mail: shiko@uol.com.br Ruth Glasner teaches in the Program for the History and Philosophy of Science at the Hebrew University ofJerusalem. She has published a book and several articles on Hebrew Aristotelianism in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. She is currently writing a book on the different versions of Averroes' three commentaries on the Physics and is preparing a critical edition of Moses Narboni's commentary on the Physics. E-mail: ruthg@math.huji.ac.il Bernard R. Goldstein is University Professor Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh. He has published extensively on the history of astronomy from antiquity to the seventeenth century, with special emphasis on medieval Hebrew astronomical texts. Among his recent publications is "Kepler and Hebrew Astronomical Tables" (Journal for the History ofAstronomy 32 (2001): 130-136). He is currently engaged in a survey of astronomical tables from 303 medieval Spain and Portugal in collaboration with José Chabás (Universität Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona). E-mail: brg@pitt.edu David A. Hollinger is Chancellor's Professor of History at the University of California at Berkeley. His most recent book is Science, Jews, and Secular Culture: Studies in Mid-Twentieth Century American Intellectual History (Princeton, 1996). His other books include Morris R. Cohen and the Scientific Ideal (MIT, 1975). E-mail: davidhol@socrates.berkeley.edu Y. Tzvi Langermann is a member of the Department of Arabic at Bar-Ilan University, where he teaches courses on the Qur'an, Sufism, the history of philosophy, and the history of medicine. His research interests include a wide range of subjects in medieval science and philosophy. His latest book is The Jews and the Sciences in the Middle Ages (Aldershot, 1999). E-mail: ytl@mail.biu.ac.il Hans Lausch is associate professor of mathematics in the School of Mathematical Sciences at Monash University, Melbourne. He is a contributor to Moses Mendelssohns Gesammelte Schriften:Jubiläumsausgabe (Berlin/Breslau/ Stuttgart/Bad Cannstatt, 1929- ) and to Leonhardi Euleri opera omnia (Basel, 1911- ). He has published several articles on eighteenth-century Jewish mathematicians. E-mail: h.lausch@sci.monash.edu.au Tony Levy is Chargé de recherche at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (Centre d'histoire des sciences et des philosophies arabes et médi évales) in Paris. He has published extensively on the history of medieval mathematics, with a focus on Hebrew mathematics between the twelfth and the sixteenth centuries. E-mail: tlevy@vjf.cnrs.fr 304 José Luis Mancha teaches the history and philosophy of science at the University of Seville. He has published articles on medieval optics and astronomy and is currently working on the Latin version of the Astronomy of Levi ben Gerson. E-mail: mancha@us.es John North is emeritus professor of the history of philosophy at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. His latest book is The Ambassadors' Secret: Holbein and the World of the Renaissance, published by Hambledon and London. E-mail: north@let.rug.nl David Shulman is professor of Indian studies and comparative religion at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. His recent publications include The Wisdom of Poets: Studies in Tamil, Telugu, and Sanskrit (Oxford, 2000) and (with V. Narayana Rao) Classical Telugu Poetry: An Anthology (Oxford, 2002). E-mail: shulman@coma.huji.ac.il David B. Ruderman is the Joseph Meyerhoff Professor of Modern Jewish History and director of the Center for Advanced...