Challenging Religious Authorities. The Scientific Commitment of Simone Luzzatto and Yoseph Delmedigo

This paper offers a brief overview toward Simone Luzzatto’s and Yoseph Delmedigo’s commitment to secular learning.Their interest to natural sciences which embraces a bride range of fields, as mathematics, physics, medicine, and astronomy will be here considered a special periscope through which to observe and analyze 17th century multifaceted Jewish approach to the new science and how did impact their faith and their respect for religious authority.