FARISSOL, JUDAH:
Italian mathematician and astronomer; flourished at Mantua at the end of the fifteenth century. In 1499 he wrote "Iggeret Sefirah," a description of the astronomical sphere, with diagrams.
Bibliography:
- Steinschneider, Jewish, Literature, p. 187;
- Neubauer, Cat. Bodl. Hebr. MSS. p. 711.
