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FIRST EXPOSITION OF NEWTONIAN PHYSICS IN HEBREW LEVISON, MORDEKHAI GUMPEL SCHNABER. Ma'amar ha-Torah ve-ha-Hokhma. Helek Rishon. Title within elaborate type-ornament border. [4], 85, [5] pages. 4to, contemporary decorated paper boards, quite worn, contents partly loose in binding; title reinforced in gutter, clean tear at top of last several leaves, free endpapers lacking. London: Moshe Shai et al., 1771
First edition. All published of an introduction to the physical and life sciences, including accounts of the Copernican system and the experiments of Boyle, Borelli, Huygens, Guericke, and Torricelli. "His most extensive discussion, however, is concerned with a full elaboration of Newton's physics, especially his three laws of motion . . . Levison deserves the distinction of being the first author to offer his readers a serious distillation of Newton's ideas in a Hebrew book" (Ruderman). Roth, Magna Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica, page 337; Ruderman, Jewish Enlightenment in an English Key, pages 187-88; Vinograd, London 63; not in Babson, Gray, Wallis, or ESTC.
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