1236-1312 French Jewish mathematician and astronomer who translated several key works into Hebrew, and wrote a number of mathematical and astronomical treatises. Among the texts Jacob translated from Arabic were Euclid's (c. 325-c. 250 B.C.)...

Jacob ben Machir ibn Tibbon, of the Ibn Tibbon family. Provençal, Jewish astronomer; born, probably at Marseilles, about 1236; died at Montpellier about 1304. He was a grandson of Samuel ben Judah ibn Tibbon. His Provençal name was Don Profiat Tibbon;...

The Problemata Physica Attributed to Aristotle: The Arabic Version of Hunain ibn Ishaq and the Hebrew Version of Moses ibn Tibbon. Edited by L. S. FILIUS Leiden: BRILL 1999. Pp. lxxxvii + 903. HFI 500, $294.50. M. Steinschneider announced in 1893 the...

The inventor Jacob Rabinow has worked for the National Institute of Standards and Technology, where he began his career in 1938 as a mechanical engineer. Rabinow started his own company at one point, and has 230 US patents to his name. Rabinow's life and...