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Rabbi Zag de Sujurmenza was a Jewish convert of 13th-century Spain who helped King Alfonso X of Castile with his scientific works.. Zag de Sujurmenza was commissioned by the king to write Astrolabio redondo (spherical astrolabe), Astrolabio llano (flat astrolabe), Constelaciones (constellations) and Lámina Universal (an instrument that improved on the astrolabe); he also translated the book ...
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Isaac Israeli ben Joseph or Yitzhak ben Yosef (often known as Isaac Israeli the Younger) was a Spanish-Jewish astronomer/astrologer who flourished at Toledo in the first half of the fourteenth century. He was a pupil of Asher ben Yehiel, at whose request (in 1310) he wrote the astronomical work Yesod Olam.
[8] [10] He was a major figure in Spanish mathematical circles and was considered an "expert" in the field by Gabriel Serrano, who succeeded him at the University of Salamanca. [11] According to Tayra M.C. Lanuza Navarro, a researcher at the University of Valencia, Muñoz was the "foremost Spanish astronomer of the sixteenth century". [12]
Guillermo Haro Barraza (Spanish pronunciation: [ɡiˈʝeɾmo ˈaɾo βaˈrasa]; [1] 21 March 1913 – 26 April 1988) was a Mexican astronomer. Through his own astronomical research and the formation of new institutions, Haro was influential in the development of modern observational astronomy in Mexico.
Birth home of Jorge Juan in the estate El Fondonet (also known as El Hondón), located in the town of Novelda, in the province of Alicante. Jorge Juan was born of two distinguished hidalgo families: his father was don Bernardo Juan y Canicia, a relative of the Counts of Peñalba, while his mother was doña Violante Santacilia y Soler de Cornellá, who came from a prominent land-owning family ...
21st-century Spanish astronomers (12 P) This page was last edited on 18 July 2021, at 06:08 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
After having amicably parted from the House of Medina Sidonia, he sought recognition as a cosmographer and brought out a text titled Libro de Cosmografía ("Book of Cosmography", 1538). He received official permission to compile navigation maps, to write books about pilotage , and to manufacture navigational devices necessary for voyages to the ...