Updates

2026-08-06

Twenty-two works have been reissued. A pass of mechanical edits brought the English into a more consistent modern register — smoothing constructions that had come through the translation reading stiffly or archaically — without altering the sense of the text.

2026-08-04

Added Be’er HaGolah (R. Judah Loew ben Bezalel, the Maharal of Prague, 1598) — his defense of the Aggadah, the non-legal portions of the Talmud, against the critics of his age who read its stories as absurd and its science as discredited.

2026-07-31

Added two works: Clavius’s Opera Mathematica, Tomus V — his own account of the Gregorian calendar reform he principally engineered — and Willebrord Snellius’s Eratosthenes Batavus (Leiden, 1617), the first modern measurement of the Earth’s circumference by triangulation.
Every work has been reissued. Greek passages quoted inside the Latin texts were audited page by page and corrected throughout, and some editorial scaffolding that had been showing through into the reading text has been cleaned out.

2026-07-30

Added seven works to the corpus: Midrash ha-Ḥokhmah (Judah ben Solomon ha-Kohen), Tomes I–IV of Clavius’s Opera Mathematica, and Refractiones Coelestes and Rosa Ursina sive Sol (Scheiner).
Sefer HaBris HaShalem (Hurwitz) was retitled from its earlier heading, Sefer HaBrit HaShalem.
Every work has been reissued. The translator version is unchanged, but proper names and technical vocabulary are now held to one consistent form across the whole corpus; earlier printings let variants through.

2026-07-05

Added eight works to the corpus: Milchamot HaShem (Gersonides), Sefer HaBris HaShalem (Hurwitz), Tzemach David (Gans), Keli Ḥemda and Orah Selulah (ibn al-Aḥdab), Roba’ Yisrael (ibn Tibbon), Perush Sod ha-Ibbur (Jacob ben Samson), and Sefer ha-Ḥeshbon ve-ha-Middot (Comtino).
Cheshbon Mahalechot ha-Kochavim (bar Ḥiyya ha-Nasi) was retitled from its earlier heading, Po’al ha-Shem ve-Cheshbon Mahalechot ha-Kochavim.
Some works now carry improved source records – Nechmad ve-Na’im, for one, now cites the National Library of Israel’s own digitized exemplar.

2026-06-29

All translations are now at version 2, regenerated with the corrected pipeline. Version 1 turned out to be an intermediate stage and has been superseded.
Added new works to the corpus – most recently Sefer Tsurat ha-Arets, Kitsur ha-Melakhat ha-Mispar, and Sefer Elim.
Draft editorial footnotes are now available for download from a footnotes link beneath each work’s title.