Jacob ben Machir ibn Tibbon occupies a…

Jacob ben Machir ibn Tibbon occupies a considerable place in the history of astronomy in the Middle Ages.

A Provençal Jewish astronomer of the Ibn Tibbon family, his works, translated into Latin, will be quoted by Copernicus, Reinhold, and Clavius.

He is also highly reputed as a physician, and, according to Jean Astruc ("Mémoires pour Servir à l'Histoire de la Faculté de Médecine de Montpellier," p. 168), is in 1300 named regent of the faculty of medicine of Montpellier.