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BornMetz, Moselle, (France), 1652
DiedJerusalem, (Israel), 1729
Tobias Cohn studied medicine at the University of Padua. He practiced at first in Poland but eventually became the physician to five Ottoman sultans. His encyclopedic Ma’aseh Toviyyah (Venice, 1707) discusses Jewish theology, astronomy, medicine, hygiene, pharmacology, botany, and cosmography. Cohn rejected heliocentricism on religious grounds.
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Efron, N. J. (1997). Jewish Thought and Scientific Discovery in Early Modern Europe. Journal of the History of Ideas 58: 719.
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Hockey, T. (2014). Cohn, Tobias. In: Hockey, T., et al. Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9917-7_9039
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