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nom1224 (22 / November / 2024)

Sahl ibn Bišr (Tabaristan, Pèrsia, c. 786 – c. 845)

Creació de la fitxa: 2010-10-19
Darrera modificació: 2016-08-06
Categoria social i professional
astrònom/astròleg - jueu - matemàtic - metge
Comentaris
Abū ʿUṯmān Sahl ibn Bišr al-Isrāʾīlī fou un astròleg i matemàtic jueu persa actiu a Bagdad. Autor de diverses obres d'astrologia, d'un tractat d'àlgebra i de la primera traducció de l'Almagest de Ptolemeu a l'àrab. A Europa, en traducció llatina, el seu tractat sobre les eleccions va tenir una gran difusió durant l'Edat Mitjana i el Renaixement. Pare del metge ʿAlī ibn Sahl Rabbān al-Ṭabarī, mestre d'Al-Rāzī (c. 864 – c. 925). Conegut a l'Occident llatí com Zahel Benbriz o simplement Zahel.
Bibliografia
Steinschneider (1900), "Sahl ben Bischr, Sahl al-Tabari ..."
Carmody (1956), Arabic Astronomical and ..., p. 41
Pagel (1960), "Paracelsus and Techellus the Jew"
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Sezgin (1967-<2010>), Geschichte des arabischen ..., vol. 7 (1979), pp. 125-126
Low-Beer (1979), Hermann of Carinthia: The Liber ...
Enllaços
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Variants del nom
Abū ʿUṯmān Sahl ibn Bišr al-Isrāʾīlī
Zahel Benbriz
Rabbān al-Ṭabarī

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The small images on the decorative ribbon correspond, from left to right, to the following documents: 1. James II orders the settlement of neighborhood disputes over an estate of the royal doctor Arnau de Vilanova in the city of Valencia. 1298 (ACA); 2. Contract between Guglielmo Neri de Santo Martino, a surgeon from Pisa, and the physician-surgeon from Majorca Pere Saflor, bachelor of medicine, to practise medicine and surgery under the latter’s direction, 1356 (ACM); 3. Valuation of the workshop of Guillem Metge, an apothecary from Barcelona, made by the apothecaries Miquel Tosell, Berenguer Duran and Vicenç Bonanat, for its sale to Llorenç Bassa, a fellow apothecary, 1364 (AHPB); 4. Peter III the Ceremonious regularizes the legal situation of Esteró, a Jewish female doctor from Vilafranca del Penedès, granting her an extraordinary license to practice medicine. 1384 (ACA); 5. Power of attorney of Margarida de Tornerons, a doctor in Prats de Molló and Vic, in order to recover the goods withheld from her by a third party in Vic, 1401 (ABEV); 6. Doctorate and teaching license of Narcís Solà, bachelor of medicine, issued by Bernat de Casaldòvol, doctor of medicine and chancellor of the Faculty of Medicine in Barcelona, 1526 (AHCB); and 7. Partnership between Joan Llunes and Joan Francesc Llunes, father and son, and Lluís Gual, the former’s son-in-law, surgeons of Caldes de Montbui, in order to practise the profession, 1579 (AHCB).