MOSES BOTAREL FARISSOL:
Astronomer and mathematician of the second half of the fifteenth century. He wrote a work on the calendar entitled "Meleket ha-Ḳebi'ah," and compiled, under the title "Nofet Ẓufim," calendric tables. Both these works, in manuscript, are preserved in the royal library at Munich.
Bibliography:
- Steinschneider, Cat. Munich, p. 93, No. 249, 1;
- idem, Jewish Literature, p. 189.
