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Gersonides

Levi ben Gershon (1288 – 20 April 1344), better known by his Graecized name as Gersonides, or by his Latinized name Magister Leo Hebraeus, or in Hebrew by the abbreviation of first letters as RaLBaG, was a medieval French Jewish philosopher, Talmudist, mathematician, physician and astronomer/astrologer. He was born at Bagnols in Languedoc, France.…

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Levi ben Gershon (לוי בן גרשון) 1288 Bagnols-sur-Cèze, France
Died
1344 (aged 55–56) Perpignan, France
Era
Medieval philosophy
Main interests
Religious philosophy, mathematics
Region
Jewish philosophy

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related to Estimation of stellar distances and refutation of Ptolemy's model · 9
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