Editing Gersonides (section)

{{Short description|Medieval Jewish philosopher}}
{{For|the printers of Hebrew books|Gersonides (printers)}}
{{Infobox philosopher
| birth_name       = Levi ben Gershon (לוי בן גרשון)
| region           = [[Jewish philosophy]]
| era              = [[Medieval philosophy]]
| name             = Gersonides
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| birth_date       = 1288
| birth_place      = [[Bagnols-sur-Cèze]]
| death_date       = {{death year and age|1344|1288}}
| death_place      = [[Perpignan]]
| school_tradition =
| main_interests   = [[Religious philosophy]], [[mathematics]]
| notable_ideas    = 
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'''Levi ben Gershon''' (1288 – 20 April 1344), better known by his [[Greek language|Graecized]] name as '''Gersonides''', or by his Latinized name '''Magister Leo Hebraeus''',<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sFztBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA387|title=Philosophy in the Middle Ages: The Christian, Islamic, and Jewish Traditions|isbn=9781603844512|last1=Hyman|first1=Arthur|last2=Walsh|first2=James J.|last3=Williams|first3=Thomas|date=24 September 2010|publisher=Hackett }}</ref> or in [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] by the abbreviation of first letters as '''''R'''a'''LB'''a'''G''''',<ref>"Ralbag" is the acronym of "Rabbi Levi Ben Gershon", with vowels added to make it easily pronounceable, the normal traditional Jewish practice with the names of prominent Rabbis. (See: {{Cite book |last=Rubin |first=Aaron D. |title=Encyclopedia of Hebrew language and linguistics |date=2013 |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-90-04-17642-3 |editor-last=Khan |editor-first=Geoffrey |volume=1 |location=Leiden; Boston |pages=2 |chapter=Abbreviations}})</ref> was a medieval French Jewish [[philosopher]], Talmudist, [[mathematician]], [[physician]] and [[astronomer]]/[[astrologer]]. He was born at [[Bagnols-sur-Cèze|Bagnols]] in [[Languedoc]], [[France]]. According to [[Abraham Zacuto]] and others, he was the son of [[Gerson ben Solomon Catalan]].