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@article{Goldstein2017TheAT,
  title={The Astronomical Tables of Isaac ben Joseph Israeli of Toledo},
  author={Bernard R. Goldstein and Jos{\'e} Chab{\'a}s},
  journal={Aleph: Historical Studies in Science and Judaism},
  year={2017},
  volume={17},
  pages={357 - 370},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:171763157}
}

Isaac Israeli (early fourteenth century) is best known for Yesod ʿolam (Berlin, 1846–1848), a treatise on astronomy and chronology. Here our focus is on his astronomical tables, mainly those in his unpublished Šaʿar ha-šamayim, which have not been studied previously. We present an analysis of some of these tables, preserved in various manuscripts, and find that they are largely dependent on similar sets of tables available at the time in Spain. Of special interest is that in the headings of a…