Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1585-01-01
- Died
- 1640-04-00
- Works
- 0
Top works
- Tradizione e illuminismo in Uriel da Costa
via Open Library + Wikidata
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Systematic and integrative analysis of large gene lists using DAVID bioinformatics resources
· 2008 · cited 31,479x
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· 2000 · cited 22,650x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,048x
Article
Uriel da Costa ( Portuguese: [uɾiˈɛl dɐ ˈkɔʃtɐ]; also Acosta or d'Acosta; c. 1585 – April 1640) was a Portuguese Sephardi philosopher who was born a New Christian but returned to Judaism, whereupon he questioned the Catholic and rabbinic orthodoxies of his time. This led him into conflict with both Christian and Jewish institutions: his books were placed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum and several Jewish authorities excommunicated him. His iconoclastic life culminated in suicide in c. 1640.
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