Article ID: CBB001321204

A Scholarly Intermediary between the Ottoman Empire and Renaissance Europe (2014)

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This essay studies Moses Galeano, a Jewish scholar with ties to Crete and the Ottoman Sultan's court, who traveled to the Veneto around 1500. After describing Galeano's intellectual milieu, it focuses, first, on circumstantial evidence that he transmitted information central to the rise of Renaissance astronomy. Galeano knew of theories that strongly resemble portions of astronomy texts written by Giovanni Battista Amico and Girolamo Fracastoro at Padua a few decades later. He also knew about theories pioneered by the Damascene Ibn al-Sh tir (d. 1375) that strongly resemble portions of Copernicus's work. Next, the article turns to concrete evidence showing that Galeano was part of a network of Jewish scholars who did have contact with Christian scholars in Europe. The essay concludes that, while it is impossible to prove that Galeano had direct contact with Copernicus, he most likely had contact with some European astronomer(s) in the Veneto.

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Authors & Contributors
Saliba, George A.
Ragep, F. Jamil
Morrison, Robert G.
Langermann, Y. Tzvi
Şen, Ahmet Tunç
Judith I. Haug
Concepts
Astronomy
Transmission of ideas
Arab/Islamic world, civilization and culture
Transmission of texts
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Jewish civilization and culture
Time Periods
16th century
Renaissance
17th century
15th century
Early modern
Medieval
Places
Ottoman Empire
Europe
Poland
Italy
Persia (Iran)
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