Bernard R. Goldstein
American historian

Bernard R. Goldstein

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American historian
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United States of America
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Social science
Birth:
29 January 1938
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Bernard Raphael Goldstein (born January 29, 1938) is a historian of science and professor emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh. Goldstein published on the history of astronomy in medieval Islamic and Jewish civilization and early modern times.

Selected publications

  • The Astronomy of al-Biṭrūjī
  • The Astronomy of Levi ben Gerson (1288–1344), Springer-Verlag, 1985
  • "Theological Foundations of Kepler’s Astronomy," Osiris 16 (2001) (with Peter Barker)
  • "Astronomy in the Iberian Peninsula: Abraham Zacut and the Transition from Manuscript to Print," Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 90.2 (2000) (with José Chabás)