Charting the Heavens: Jews and Astronomy

Charting the Heavens: Jews and Astronomy

Abraham bar Hiyya Savasorda, ca. 1065-ca. 1136
Bonfils, Immanuel ben Jacob, 14th cent
Ibn al-Ṣaffār, Abū al-Qāsim Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, d. 1035
Peurbach, Georg von, 1423-1461
Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meïr, 1092-1167
[Tsurat ha-arets] ... [etc.]
Manuscript, 176v and 177r
Gratz?: ca. 1542-1599
Collection of astronomical texts in Hebrew from source texts ranging from the 11th to the 16th centuries. Subjects include geography, the Ptolemaic model of the universe, solar and lunar eclipses, and the astrolabe
Abraham bar Hiyya Savasorda, ca. 1065-ca. 1136
Bonfils, Immanuel ben Jacob, 14th cent
Ibn al-Ṣaffār, Abū al-Qāsim Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, d. 1035
Peurbach, Georg von, 1423-1461
Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meïr, 1092-1167
[Tsurat ha-arets] ... [etc.]
Manuscript, 197r
Gratz?: ca. 1542-1599
Collection of astronomical texts in Hebrew from source texts ranging from the 11th to the 16th centuries. Subjects include geography, the Ptolemaic model of the universe, solar and lunar eclipses, and the astrolabe
Abraham bar Hiyya Savasorda, ca. 1065-ca. 1136
Bonfils, Immanuel ben Jacob, 14th cent
Ibn al-Ṣaffār, Abū al-Qāsim Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, d. 1035
Peurbach, Georg von, 1423-1461
Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meïr, 1092-1167
[Tsurat ha-arets] ... [etc.]
Manuscript, 189v
Gratz?: ca. 1542-1599
Collection of astronomical texts in Hebrew from source texts ranging from the 11th to the 16th centuries. Subjects include geography, the Ptolemaic model of the universe, solar and lunar eclipses, and the astrolabe
Georg von Peurbach (1423-1461)
Illustrations to Novae theoricae planetarum
Manuscript, 45 leaves, opening, showing 6 and 7
Northern Italy (Padua?): between 1525 and 1575
showing diagrams with moving parts attached with thread, illustrations were designed to accompany the work Theoricae novae planetarum by 15th-century Austrian astronomer Georg von Peurbach, who taught at the universities in Padua and Ferrara
Tsurat ha-arets, 176v and 177r
Credit: Lawrence Schoenberg Collection, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscriptst (download from OPenn  |  Facsimile  |  more bibliographic information)
Tsurat ha-arets, 197r
Credit: Lawrence Schoenberg Collection, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscriptst (download from OPenn  |  Facsimile  |  more bibliographic information)
Tsurat ha-arets, 189v
Credit: Lawrence Schoenberg Collection, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscriptst (download from OPenn  |  Facsimile  |  more bibliographic information)
LJS 64 Illustrations to Georg von Peurbach's Novae theoricae planetarum, pp. 6-7
Credit: Lawrence Schoenberg Collection, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscriptst (download from OPenn  |  video orientation  |  Facsimile  |  more bibliographic information)