Jewish Science in Iberia & Provence
Iberia and Provence were the centers of Jewish scientific learning from the eleventh to the fifteenth century. Prominent astronomers included Abraham ibn Ezra (1092-1093 CE), Abraham bar Ḥiyya, (aka Savasorda), ca. 1134 , Levi ben Gerson ( 1288;-1344).
Astronomy was a discipline in which Jewish scholars of this region were especially prominent. However drawings of constellations such as these were rare.
Provence–and the cities of Montpellier and Periginan were home to a large Jewish scientific community in the fourteenth century, when these drawings were made. Although the map may have been drawn in this community or the growing Jewish community of Barcelona.
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