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Levi ben Gershon ( – 20 April ), better known by his Graecized name as Gersonides, or by his Latinized name Magister Leo Hebraeus, or in Hebrew by the abbreviation of first letters as RaLBaG, was a medieval French Jewish philosopher, Talmudist, mathematician, physician and astronomer/astrologer.
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Gersonides' astronomical writings are contained primarily in Book 5, part 1 of The Wars of the Lord (Milḥamot ha‐Shem), his major philosophical opus, which was completed in The .
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Gersonides sees the ultimate function of astronomy to understand God. Astronomy, he tells us, is instructive not only by virtue of its exalted subject matter, but also .
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Meet Gersonides, the 14th-century Jewish philosopher and astronomer who revolutionized optics and astrology.