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    Joseph Solomon Delmedigo (or Del Medigo), also known as Yashar Mi-Qandia (Hebrew: יש"ר מקנדיא) (16 June 1591 – 16 October 1655), was a rabbi, author, physician...
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  • Delmedigo was a Cretan Jewish family that included several notables: Elijah Delmedigo (1458–1493), philosopher and Talmudist Joseph Solomon Delmedigo...
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    Chabillo, Isaac Abarbanel, Judah Abarbanel, Moses Almosnino, and Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, are based on an acquaintance with the scholastic philosophy, especially...
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    foregoing resulted in an explosion of new ideas and philosophic paths. Joseph Solomon Delmedigo was a physician and teacher – Baruch Spinoza was a student of his...
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  • Leurechon, who describes one with a scale of 8 degrees. 1629 — Joseph Solomon Delmedigo describes in a book an accurate sealed-glass thermometer that uses...
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  • Joseph Ber Soloveitchik (Hebrew: יוסף דב הלוי סולובייצ׳יק Yosef Dov ha-Levi Soloveychik; February 27, 1903 – April 9, 1993) was a major American Orthodox...
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    Mladá Boleslav. The last tumba to be mentioned covers the grave of Joseph Solomon Delmedigo (1591–1655), a physician and a remarkable scholar born in Crete...
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    them; there had also been prominent opponents of beards, such as Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, to whom is attributed the epigram: If men are judged wise by their...
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    Elia del Medigo, also called Elijah Delmedigo or Elias ben Moise del Medigo and sometimes known to his contemporaries as Helias Hebreus Cretensis or in...
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    Joseph, and Isaac, the vizier Abu al-Hasan, Meïr ibn Kamnial, the physician and poet Solomon ben Mu'allam of Seville, besides his schoolmates Joseph ibn...
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    Francisco Sanches Uriel da Costa Baruch Spinoza Salomon Maimon Joseph Solomon Delmedigo Elijah Ba'al Shem of Chelm Eliezer ben Elijah Ashkenazi Tzvi Ashkenazi...
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    composed a polemic against the followers of Anan ben David, particularly Solomon ben Yeruham, thus beginning the activity which was to prove important in...
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    were also barometers, i.e. sensitive to air pressure. In 1629, Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, a student of Galileo and Santorio in Padua, published what is...
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    escaped the massacre in Castile in 1391. A student of the rabbi of Lisbon, Joseph Chaim, he became well versed in rabbinic literature and in the learning...
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    Langermann, Tzvi Y. (2013). "An Alchemical Treatise Attributed to Joseph Solomon Delmedigo". Aleph. 13 (1): 77–94. doi:10.2979/aleph.13.1.77. ISSN 1565-1525...
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    those of Ptolemy, Copernicus and Brahe, without taking sides. Joseph Solomon Delmedigo (1591–1655) in his "Elim" (1629) says that the arguments of Copernicus...
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    reputation among the gentile nations will be even greater than that of King Solomon. His great righteousness and the wonders that he will bring about will...
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  • Candia José Pedro Montero de Candia, former president of Paraguay Joseph Solomon Delmedigo de Candia (1591–1655), scientist and philosopher Pedro de Candia...
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    Yesod HaAvodah of Alexander Süsskind of Grodno in the name of David ben Solomon ibn Abi Zimra: "This was because Aḥiyya had his mind and thoughts connected...
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    philosophers such as Bahya ibn Paquda (c. 1050–1120), Judah Halevi (c. 1075–1141), Joseph ibn Tzaddik (died 1149), and Abraham ibn Ezra (c. 1090–1165). Nevertheless...
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    Neo-platonism derived from the Hispanic Jewish community, especially the works of Solomon ibn Gabirol and Maimonides. A disciple of these renowned Jewish scholars...
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    Basingstoke, Hampshire New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0333733905. Ratner, Joseph, 1927. The Philosophy of Spinoza (The Modern Library: Random House) Stolze...
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    "postbiblical Wisdom literature, in particular the Wisdom of Solomon". The Wisdom of Solomon is a Jewish work composed in Alexandria, Egypt, around the...
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    gentile powers. In the first century BCE, in the Qumran texts, the Psalms of Solomon, and the Similitudes of Enoch, "both foreign and native rulers are castigated...
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    and direct language, as poems like his Epithalamium demonstrate. Joseph Solomon Delmedigo warns the student against Qallir's writings because "he has cut...
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  • Caccini and sister of Francesca Caccini (died 1638) date unknown Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Cretan music theorist, in Candia (Iraklion) (died 1655) Robert...
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  • According to Abraham Zacuto and others, he was the son of Gerson ben Solomon Catalan. As in the case of the other medieval Jewish philosophers little...
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  • Italian Jesuit botanist and linguist (born 1584) October 16 – Rabbi Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Cretan-born peripatetic physician and scientist (born 1591) October...
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  • mystical tradition from generation to generation. According to Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Moses received that tradition from Aaron ben Samuel ha-Nasi, who...
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    Francisco Sanches Uriel da Costa Baruch Spinoza Salomon Maimon Joseph Solomon Delmedigo Elijah Ba'al Shem of Chelm Eliezer ben Elijah Ashkenazi Tzvi Ashkenazi...
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