Les méthodes de travail de Gersonide et le maniement du savoir chez les scolastiques

Abstract

Levi ben Gershom, known as Gersonides (1288–1344), was one of the most influential Medieval Jewish philosophers, and surely the most renowned among Hebrew-writing Jewish authors active in Provence during the Late Middle Ages. Possibly born in Orange (now in the French department of Vaucluse), he spent all his life near the area of the Rhone Delta; for a period he was at the papal court, then in Avignon, where he acted as an official astronomer and astrologer— and maybe as a physician too. Many of Gersonides’ minor works are of scientific interest since they concern the different fields of logic, arithmetic, geometry, musicology, and astronomy; however, his major and best-known writings, in approximate chronological order, are the following: