Jacob ben David ben Yom Tov
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Jacob ben David ben Yom Tov
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Jacob ben David ben Yom Tov, also known as ha-Poel, was a Catalan Jewish astronomer and astrologer. He lived, probably at Perpignan, in southern France in the fourteenth century. He was the author of astronomical tables prepared at Perpignan in 1361. These tables, still extant in manuscript, enjoyed a great reputation. They were translated into Latin in the fifteenth century, and were the subject of many Hebrew commentaries, among which was one written by Joseph ben Saul Ḳimḥi. Many manuscripts
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Medieval Spanish astronomer
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