Freudenthal, Gad
FREUDENTHAL, Gad
FREUDENTHAL, Gad. Israeli (born Palestine), b. 1944. Genres: Physics. Career: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France, director of research at Institute for the History of Science, 1982-. Publications: Aristotle's Theory of Material Substance: Heat and Pneuma, Form and Soul, 1995. EDITOR: Etudes sur Helene Metzger/Studies on Helene Metzger, 1990; Studies on Gersonides: A Fourteenth-Century Jewish Philosopher-Scientist, 1992. Address: Institut d'histoire des sciences, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 13 rue du Four, 75006 Paris, France.
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