Sahl (Called Rabban, I.E., Rabbi Al-Ṭabari, I.E., "Of Tabaristan")
From Jewish Encyclopedia (1906) Sahl (Called Rabban, I.E., Rabbi Al-Ṭabari, I.E., "Of Tabaristan"):
Physician, astrologer, and mathematician of the ninth century ( c. 786-845 ?); father of the physician Ali ben Sahl. Sahl translated the "Almagest" of Ptolemy. Steinschneider identifies him with the celebrated Sahl ibn Bishr ("Zur Pseudepigraphischen Litteratur," p. 78).
Bibliography:
- Steinschneider, Die Arabische Literatur der Juden, pp. 24, 31 et seq.;
- Grätz, Gesch. 3d ed., v. 187-188;
- Suter, Die Mathematiker und Astronomen der Araber und Ihre Werke, in Zeitschrift für Mathematik und Physik, ed. Mehmke and Cantor, supplement to the 45th year of publication, Leipsic, 1900.
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