New Heavens and a New Earth

Jeremy Brown is an emergency physician and Director of the Office of Emergency Care Research at the National Institutes of Health. His work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Scientific American, and The Spectator. He writes about science and medicine in the Talmud at Talmudology.com

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• IntroductionChapter 1 - Nicolas Copernicus and His RevolutionChapter 2 - The Talmudic View of the UniverseChapter 3 - David Gans and the First Mention of Copernicus in Hebrew LiteratureChapter 4 - The First Jewish Copernican: Rabbi Joseph Solomon DelmedigoChapter 5 - ''Copernicus Is the Son of Satan.'' The First Jewish Rejections of CopernicusChapter 6 - David Nieto and Copernicanism in LondonChapter 7 - The Jewish EncyclopediasChapter 8 - The Eighteenth Century. Jews and Copernicus in the Newtonian EraChapter 9 - ''I Have Written a Book For the Young People.'' David Friesenhausen's Mosdot TevelChapter 10 - The Nineteenth Century: Copernicus Without HesitationChapter 11 - ''Let Copernicus and a Thousand Like Him Be Removed From the World.'' Reuven Landau's RejectionChapter 12 - The Modern PeriodChapter 13 - Relativity and Contemporary Jewish GeocentristsChapter 14 - ConclusionsAppendix Bibliography