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Gershon ben Solomon of Arles

The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia

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Provençal philosopher; flourished in the second half of the thirteenth century; said to be the father of Gersonides. He was the author of "Sha'ar ha-Shamayim" (Venice, 1547; Rödelsheim, 1801), a sort of encyclopedia divided into three parts, treating: (1) of natural phenomena, metals, plants, animals, and man; (2) of astronomy, principally extracted from Alfergani and the Almagest; and (3) of metaphysics, taken from Maimonides' "Moreh Nebukim."

Bibliography:
  • Zunz, Benjamin of Tudela, 2:259;
  • Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. col. 1014;
  • idem, in R. E. J. 5:278;
  • Sachs, Kerem Ḥemed, 8:157;
  • Monatsschrift, 1879, pp. 20 et seq.;
  • Renan-Neubauer, Les Rabbins Français, pp. 589 et seq.;
  • Gross, Gallia Judaica, p. 82.
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Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Gershon ben Solomon of Arles'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tje/​g/gershon-ben-solomon-of-arles.html. 1901.
 
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