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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 February 2009
Moses Maimondes, born March 30, 1135, the eight hundredth anniversary of whose birth we now commemorate, is one of those universal spirits who mastered the whole realm of knowledge of their time. His fruitful and extensive literary activity covered many fields: astronomy, medicine, Talmud, and philosophy. His works on medicine were in former tunes highly esteemed. In the field of philosophy he strove for the synthesis of Aristotelianism and revealed religion, an endeavour which was of paramount importance for the later development of philosophic thought. His influence as a philosopher is not confined to the sphere of Jewish thought, but has left a lasting impression on the history of philosophy in general.
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page 71 note 2 Published by a French scholar, de Careil, Foucher; Leibniz, La Philosophic juive et la caballe, Paris, 1861.Google Scholar
page 72 note 1 Egregium video esse librum rabbi Mosis Maimonidis qui inscribitur Doctor perplexorum, et magis philosophicum quam putaram, dignum adeo lectione attenta; fuit im philosophia, mathematicis, medica arte, denique sacrae scripturae intelligentia insignis.
