ISRAELI, ISAAC BEN JOSEPH
- ISRAELI, ISAAC BEN JOSEPH
- ISRAELI, ISAAC BEN JOSEPH (first half of the 14th
century), Spanish astronomer who worked in Toledo. Israeli is best known
for his book Yesod Olam ("The Foundation of the World")
written in 1310, which was considered the most important contribution to
Hebrew literature in this field. It dealt with the geometrical problems
of the earth in the Ptolemaic system of the universe as revised by
al-Biṭsūjī, the seasons, etc., and included astronomical tables. The
high esteem in which this book was held over several centuries led to an
edition in 1777 being published in Berlin by Jacob Shklover, and a more
complete edition, with a preface by David Cassel, was produced in Berlin
(1846–48) by B. Goldberg and L. Rosenkranz. There are also commentaries
on this work by Isaac Alḥadib , judah bassan , and
Elijah Mizraḥi . An abridged version in Arabic was written by
the author's son, Joseph Israeli b. Isaac, a Hebrew translation of which
(under the title Kiẓẓur Yesod Olam) still exists. Isaac
Israeli is also the author of two other books, still extant in
manuscripts, Sha'ar ha-Shamayim and Sha'ar
ha-Millu'im.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Steinschneider, Arab Lit, 164; idem, Die Mathematik bei den
Juden (1897), 39; Waxman, Literature, 2 (19602), 320–1;
G. Sarton, Introduction to the History of Science, 3
(1947–48), 691–2, includes bibliography; W.M. Feldman, Rabbinical
Mathematics and Astronomy (1931), 111.
(Arthur Beer)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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