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March 12, 2024

The Jewish Response to Copernicus

Starting with the rabbi who studied with Galileo.

Born in Crete in 1591, Joseph Solomon Delmedigo received a traditional rabbinic education and was one of many Jews of his day who studied medicine and the sciences at the university of Padua. Among his instructors there was Galileo Galilei, whom he would later refer to as “rabbi [literally, my teacher] Galileus” in his Hebrew writings. Delmedigo was among the very first to publish the Copernican theory of the universe.

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March 12, 2024

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