| Name |
Date |
Known for
|
| Abraham de Balmes |
died 1523 |
Translator
|
| Abraham ibn Ezra |
1093-1168 |
|
| Abraham bar Hiyya Ha-Nasi |
1130 |
|
| Abraham of Toledo |
1278 |
|
| Abraham Zacuto ben Samuel |
16th century |
|
| Andruzagar ben Zadi Faruch |
9th century |
|
| Augustinius Ricius |
1521 |
|
| Baruch Sklow |
c. 1777 |
|
| Baruch ben Solomon ben Joab |
1457 |
|
| Bianchino |
15th century |
|
| Bonet de Lattes |
1506 |
|
| Caleb Afendopolo |
15th century |
|
| David Gans |
died 1613 |
|
| David Kalonymus ben Jacob |
1464 |
|
| David ibn Nahmias |
|
|
| David Nieto |
died 1728 |
|
| Dayyan Ḥasan |
972 |
|
| Elijah Mizrachi |
died 1526 |
|
| Emanuel ben Jacob |
1346-65 |
|
| Ephraim Mizraḥi |
|
|
| Farissol Moses Botarel |
1465 |
|
| Hananeel ben Ḥushiel |
died 1020? |
|
| Ḥayyim Lisker |
1612-36 |
|
| Ḥayyim Vital Calabrese |
died 1620 |
|
| Isaac ben Aaron |
1368 |
|
| Isaac Abu al-Khair ben Samuel |
1340 |
|
| Isaac Albalia ben Baruch |
1035-94 |
|
| Isaac ibn al-Ḥadib |
1370 |
|
| Isaac Israeli ben Joseph |
1310-30 |
|
| Isaac ben Meir Spira |
|
|
| Isaac ben Moses Efodaeus, Proflat Duran |
1392-1403 |
|
| Isaac ibn Sid |
1252 |
|
| Israel Lyons |
died 1775 |
|
| Israel Samose |
died 1772 |
|
| Jacob Anatoli |
1232 |
|
| Jacob Carsi (Jacob al-Corsono ben Abi Abraham Isaac) |
1376 |
|
| Jacob ben David ben Yom-Ṭob Poel |
1361 |
|
| Jacob ben Elia |
|
|
| Jacob ben Judah Cabret |
1382 |
|
| Jacob ben Makir, Proflat Tibbon |
1289-1303 |
|
| Jacob ben Samson |
1123-42 |
|
| Jacob ben Tarik or Yaʿqūb ibn Ṭāriq |
777 |
Said to have founded a school of astrology and astronomy in Baghdad
|
| Jeremiah Cohen of Palermo |
1486 |
|
| Joseph ben Eleazar |
14th century |
|
| Joseph ben Isaac ben Moses ibn Wakkar |
c. 1357 |
|
| Joseph ben Israeli ben Isaac |
died 1331 |
|
| Joseph ibn Nahmias |
1300-30 |
|
| Joseph Parsi |
|
|
| Joseph Taytazak |
c. 1520 |
|
| Judah Farissol |
1499 |
|
| Judah ha-Levi |
1140 |
|
| Judah ben Israeli |
1339 |
|
| Judah ben Moses Cohen |
1256 |
|
| Judah ben Rakufial |
before 1130 |
|
| Judah ben Samuel Shalom |
15th century |
|
| Judah ben Solomon Cohen |
1247 |
|
| Judah ibn Verga |
1457 |
|
| Kalonymus ben David of Naples |
1528 |
|
| Kalonymus ben Kalonymus |
1286-1328 |
|
| Levi ben Abraham ben Ḥayyim |
1299-1316 |
|
| Levi ben Gershon (Gersonides) |
1327-44 |
|
| Maimon of Montpellier. |
|
|
| Manoah ben Shemariyah |
died 1612 |
|
| Mashallah |
754-813 |
|
| Mattathia Delacrut |
c. 1530-50 |
|
| Meier Neumark |
1703 |
|
| Meir Spira |
14th century? |
|
| Menahem (Emanuel) Zion Porto |
1636-40 |
|
| Meshullam Kalonymus |
|
|
| Mordecai Comtino |
1460-85 |
|
| Mordecai Finzi |
1440-46 |
|
| Moses ben Abraham of Nîmes |
|
|
| Moses Almosnino |
died c. 1580 |
|
| Moses Galeno ben Elia |
16th century |
|
| Moses Goli ben Judah |
|
|
| Moses Ḥandali |
|
|
| Moses Isserles |
died 1573 |
|
| Moses ibn Tibbon |
1244-74 |
|
| Nathan Hamati ben Eliezer |
1279-83 |
|
| Raphael Leki Hannover |
1734 |
|
| Sahl (Rabban) al-Ṭabari |
800 |
|
| Samuel ibn Abbas ben Judah |
1163 |
|
| Samuel Abulafia |
1278 |
|
| Samuel Ha-Levi |
1280-84 |
|
| Samuel ben Judah of Marseilles |
1331 |
|
| Shalom ben Joseph |
1450-60 |
|
| Shalom ben Solomon Yerushalmi |
1482-87 |
|
| Shabbethai Donnolo |
913-982 |
|
| Sheshet ben Isaac ben Gerundi |
1320 |
|
| Sind ben Ali |
829-833 |
|
| Solomon Abigdor ben Abraham |
1399 |
|
| Solomon Davin of Rodez |
14th century |
|
| Solomon ben Elijah |
1344-86 |
|
| Solomon Esobi (Azubius) |
1633 |
|
| Solomon ben Moses Melgueil |
1250 |
|
| Solomon ibn Pater Cohen of Burgos |
1322 |
|
| Solomon Shalom ben Moses |
1441-86 |
|
| Tobias Cohen |
1708
|
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "Astronomy". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.