Josefina Rodriguez-Arribas

• Professor (Assistant) at Polish Academy of Sciences

Corsuno’s treatise on the astrolabe (Barcelona, 1378) is extant in only one Hebrew manuscript preserved at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich. This text, which is a set of instructions for constructing an astrolabe, is, according to Corsuno’s words, a translation of the Arabic treatise that he devoted to the same topic in Seville in 1376, wh...

The subject of this article is the treatise on the astrolabe ring (1492/1493) by Bonetus de Latis (Jacob ben Emanuel Provenzale). The treatise belongs to a four-centuries-old tradition of Jewish treatises on the astrolabe, written mainly in Hebrew and more rarely in Judaeo-Arabic, Judaeo-Spanish, Spanish, and Latin, and produced mostly in southern...

Abraham Bar Ḥiyya’s Megillat ha-Megalleh is the first treatise on historical astrology written in Hebrew and the only text in which Bar Ḥiyya describes how astrologers base prognostications on specific heavenly positions and the relations in or between specific horoscopes. It represents the first attempt by a scientist and translator to find...

Abraham ibn Ezra (Tudela, 1089/1092-1164/1167) was the most important writer of scientific treatises in Hebrew in the twelfth century; prior to him and his predecessor, Abraham bar Hiyya (d. after 1136), Arabic was the only language of scientific knowledge among Jews. After Ibn Ezra’s work, Hebrew became a language of science, and eventually of res...

Josefina Rodriguez Arribas, Harvard University, josefine@tiscali.es