Israeli, Isaac Ben Joseph. Yesod Olam [astronomy and cosmography]. Edited by Baruch of Schklov.

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Berlin

1777

FIRST EDITION . Title within a typographical border. Two folding engraved plates with astronomical charts between ff. 61-2 and at end.

Vinograd, Berlin 289.

The author was a Spanish-Jewish astronomer who flourished in Toledo in the first half of the fourteenth century. He was a pupil of Asher ben Yehiel, at whose request he wrote the present work, the best contribution toward the study of astronomy in Hebrew literature.