Aaron Afia
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Greek scientist, mathematician, philosopher, and physician
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Aaron Afia , also known as Affius, was a sixteenth-century Jewish ex-converso scientist, mathematician, philosopher, and physician living in Salonika. He was the teacher of Daniel ben Perachiah, whom he assisted in the translation from the Spanish into Hebrew of Abraham Zacuto's Almanach perpetuum , and Moses Almosnino, whom he assisted in his Hebrew translation of Johannes de Sacrobosco's De sphaera mundi. Almosnino's Bet Elokim—an astronomical work which draws on Georg von Peuerbach's Theorica planetarium—also contains work by Afia at the end.
