Biography:Moses Botarel Farissol
Moses Botarel Farissol was a Jewish astronomer and mathematician of the second half of the 15th century.
He wrote a work on the calendar entitled Meleket ha-Ḳebi'ah, and compiled, under the title Nofet Ẓufim, calendric tables.[1][2] Both these works, in manuscript, are preserved in the royal library at Munich.
Further reading
Goldstein, Bernard R.; Chabás, José (2017). "The Astronomical Tables of Moses Farissol Botarel". Suhayl: Journal for the History of the Exact and Natural Sciences in Islamic Civilisation 15: 29–66. https://opacplus.bsb-muenchen.de/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=cdi_csuc_raco_oai_raco_cat_article_329905&context=PC&vid=49BVB_BSB%3AVU1&lang=de&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&adaptor=Primo%20Central&tab=Everything&query=any%2Ccontains%2CMeleket%20ha-%E1%B8%B2ebi%27ah&offset=0.
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore, ed (1901–1906). "Moses Botarel Farissol". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=849&letter=M.
- ↑ Steinschneider, Moritz (1857). Jewish Literature from the Eighth to the Eighteenth Century. London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts. p. 189. https://archive.org/details/jewishliterature00stei.
- ↑ Moritz Steinschneider, Cat. Munich, p. 93, No. 249, 1.
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