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Plato of Tivoli

أفلاطون التيفوليّ

Notable figure fl. c. 1132–1146 · Source: Lorenzo Minio-Paluello, Plato of Tivoli, Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Encyclopedia.com · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Plato Tiburtinus (11..?-11..)

From Italy; worked in Spain

Field: Translation

Affiliation

Barcelona translator of al-Battani's tables and Ptolemy

Biography

Presumably an Italian, named after Tivoli, he worked in Barcelona between about 1132 and 1146. Translations from the Arabic bear his name, among them al-Battani's astronomical tables, Ptolemy's Quadripartitum (1138), Ibn al-Saffar on the astrolabe and Theodosius's Spherics. Abraham bar Hiyya acted as his interpreter in part of this work, and he has been called an editor of these versions rather than their translator, so how much Arabic he knew himself cannot be determined.