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    Abraham Zacuto (Hebrew: אַבְרָהָם בֵּן שְׁמוּאֵל זַכּוּת‎, romanized: Avraham ben Shmuel Zacut, Portuguese: Abraão ben Samuel Zacuto; 12 August 1452 –...
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    mathematician Abraham Zacuto, the Almanach Perpetuum included tables for the movements of stars. Through the use of an astrolabe, also perfected by Zacuto who advanced...
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  • Torah, a work which Raavad himself describes as a great achievement. Abraham Zacuto recorded an anecdote whereby he claims that Rambam, during his lifetime...
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  • Abraham Zacuto (1452–c. 1515) was a Sephardi Jewish astronomer, astrologer, mathematician, rabbi and historian. Zacuto may also refer to: Moses ben Mordecai...
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    the southwest. It is named after Jewish Spanish astronomer and rabbi Abraham Zacuto. The rim of Zagut is worn and irregular, especially to the north and...
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    as the Abraham Zacuto Portuguese Jewish Museum (Portuguese: Museu Luso-Hebraico Abraão Zacuto), a Jewish museum named in honour of Abraham Zacuto. The Synagogue...
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    and Abraham Zacuto, who published their findings furthering medical knowledge of the disease, and informing treatment. Physician Abraham Zacuto writes...
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    Nissan Mindel, Rabbi Abraham Zacuto – (1450–1515), http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/111917/jewish/Rabbi-Abraham-Zacuto.htm Archived 2021-11-07...
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    Abraham Zacutus Lusitanus (Abraham Zacuto IV, Zacuti Lusitani, 1575–1642, also known as Manuel Alvares de Tavara), was a Sephardic Jewish Marrano or converso...
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  • extant writings in Zarphatic, the Judæo-French language. According to Abraham Zacuto, Moses was descended from a Narbonne family distinguished for its erudition;...
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  • Academy of the Hebrew Language in 2009. Abraham bar Hiyya Ha-Nasi (1130) Abraham ibn Ezra (1093–1168) Abraham Zacuto ben Samuel (1452 – probably 1515) Babylonian...
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  • astronomer/astrologer. He was born at Bagnols in Languedoc, France. According to Abraham Zacuto and others, he was the son of Gerson ben Solomon Catalan. As in the...
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    but Columbus himself attributed the prediction to the Almanach by Abraham Zacuto. The eclipse was visible after sunset on 29 February from most of North...
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    calculate latitude. The tables of the Almanach Perpetuum, by astronomer Abraham Zacuto, published in Leiria in 1496, were used along with its improved astrolabe...
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  • (1140–1200), physicist, poet and satirist, writer of the Book of Delights'. Abraham Zacuto (1452-c.1515), astronomer Francisco Perea (1620 – ?), first-generation...
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    various sizes, tables with calculations – such as astronomical tables of Abraham Zacuto – needle and bobs. One of the ships was carrying supplies sufficient...
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  • Maurice Woodruff Wilhelm Wulff Yavanesvara William Butler Yeats Ibn Yunus Abraham Zacuto Zadkiel C. C. Zain Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī Klingsor, four fictional...
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  • Lucrezia Crivelli, mistress of Ludovico Sforza (d. 1508) August 12 – Abraham Zacuto, Spanish Jewish astronomer, astrologer, mathematician, rabbi and historian...
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    Royo, President of Panama Francisco J. Ayala Susana Marcos Celestino Abraham Zacuto Ignacio Baleztena Ascárate Esteban de Bilbao Eguía Domingo de Soto Melchor...
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  • from Babylonia to the Iberian Peninsula, according to the historian Abraham Zacuto. He was an outstanding rabbi, liturgical composer, and poet, and he...
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  • kabbalistic school. Amongst his main students, were Nachmanides and Abraham Zacuto. The poet Meshullam of Gerona hails Azriel as the greatest Kabbalist...
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    from disparate countries. Jewish scientists and historians such as Abraham Zacuto and David Gans wrote in Hebrew, as did travelers such as Benjamin of...
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  • 1440–1508), a godson of King Edward IV, he was made the governor of Guernsey Abraham Zacuto (c. 1450–c. 1510) Moses and Rachel Fishel of Kraków, court Jews during...
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    astronomy and naval technology, including Pedro Nunes, João de Castro, Abraham Zacuto, and Martin Behaim. Cartographers Pedro Reinel, Lopo Homem, Estêvão...
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    near-contemporary Gaspar Correia and others have claimed that he studied under Abraham Zacuto, an astrologer and astronomer, but da Gama's biographer Sanjay Subrahmanyam...
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    al-Makarim c. 1208 (Abu Naiţur); Jacob van Maerlant c. 1270 (Jonitus), and Abraham Zacuto 1504 (Yoniko). Martin of Opava (c. 1250), later versions of the Mirabilia...
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    latitude calculations. The tables of the Almanach Perpetuum, by astronomer Abraham Zacuto, published in Leiria in 1496, were used along with its improved astrolabe...
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    Sumption 1999, p. 554. Todesca 2015, p. 129. Todesca 2015, p. 141. Abraham Zacuto (1452 – circa 1515), in his book Sefer Yuchasin, Kraków 1580 (q.v. Sefer...
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  • may be earlier printed mentions that still exist, the book Yuḥasin by Abraham Zacuto, of which two original texts exist from the early 16th century (1500–1503)...
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  • Qitrin". It was also during this time that he became affiliated with Abraham Zacuto and Isaac Abrabanel and was influenced by apocalyptic sentiment popularized...
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