Mordecai Angelo b. Abraham

Mordecai Angelo b. Abraham was a versatile scientist, physician, and banker, who lived in Bologna and Mantua. He wrote mathematical and astronomical works, which included Luḥot, tables on the length of days, and an astronomical work entitled Netiv Ḥokhmah. He translated into Hebrew various works on mathematics, astronomy, geometry and wrote commentaries on some of them, described and explained recently invented astronomical instruments, and wrote treatises on grammar and mnemonics.