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Abraham bar Hiyya
said Savasorda
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1065-1136 Philosopher, mathematician, astronomer and translator. He studied Arabic at the court of Hudide Zaragoza. Based in Barcelona, he writes his books in Hebrew at the request of the Jewish authorities of Provence. He leaves the works of mathematics, astronomy, geographical descriptions, an encyclopedia of philosophical writings.
Abraham bar Hiyya Hanassi (Hebrew: אברהם בר חייא הנשיא Abraham son of [Rabbi] Hiyya "Prince") (1070 Barcelona, Spain - 1136 Provence, France) was a rabbi, mathematician, astronomer and philosopher, also known as the Savasorda (from Arabic صاحب الشرطة Sahib ash-Shurta "Right Guard"). He lived mainly in Barcelona. It distributes
quadratic equation in the West, in troubled times where knowledge traveled little.
He is also author of Higayon haNefesh (Logic of the Soul) and Megillat HaMegualè (Rouleau The Revelator), the first philosophical works written in Hebrew, although theology, eschatology and ethics will be discussed more as philosophy itself. His thought
borrows as much as Aristotle Plotinus. Thus, he subscribes to the doctrine emanationist but interposed a world of light and a world of domination between God and spiritual substances. His conceptions of form and matter are, in turn, Aristotelian, because these principles can only exist in the corporeal world and not that of simple substances. wiki
Abraham bar Hiyya (known in Latin under the name Savasorda) has been scientifically educated and trained in one Arab principalities from the fall of the Caliphate of Cordoba, probably Zaragoza hudide Dynasty (1039-1118), many rulers were renowned scholars. But it is in Barcelona, Christian country, he wrote his original works in Hebrew, at the urging of Jewish dignitaries from Provence, wanting to put within reach of an audience do not read Arabic literature base. We know of two compositions mathematics: a scientific encyclopedia (Yesodey Tevuna ha-u-Migdal ha-Emuna, The foundations of reason and faith around) and a book of "practical geometry" (Hibbur ha ha-we-Meshiha -Tishboret, The Treaty measurement of surfaces and volumes), which will be translated into Latin by Plato of Tivoli in 1145 ufr
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