Bernard R. Goldstein

Bernard Raphael Goldstein (born January 29, 1938) is a historian of science and professor emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh. Goldstein published on the history of astronomy in medieval Islamic and Jewish civilization and early modern times.

Selected publications The Astronomy of al-Biṭrūjī The Astronomy of Levi ben Gerson (1288–1344), Springer-Verlag, 1985 "Theological Foundations of Kepler’s Astronomy," Osiris 16 (2001) (with Peter Barker) "Astronomy in the Iberian Peninsula: Abraham Zacut and the Transition from Manuscript to Print," Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 90.2 (2000) (with José Chabás) Ibn Mu'adh's "(1079) Treatise On Twilight and the Height of the Atmosphere" Archive for History of Exact Sciences Vol. 17, No. 2 (21.VII.1977), pp. 97-118 (22 pages) JSTOR. (Treatise On Twilight was printed by F Risner in Opticae Thesaurus (1572) as Liber de crepusculis, but attributed to Alhazen rather than Ibn Mu'adh.)