- Corsono Carsono
Corsono Carsono was a Spanish astronomer of the fourteenth century.
He was commissioned by King Pedro IV of
Aragon to translate fromCatalonian into Hebrew the astronomical tables known as "The Tables of Don Pedro", which, at Don Pedro's command, had been begun by MaestrePiero Gilebert , and finished by Gilebert's pupil,Dalmacio de Planis .About 1376 Carsono wrote at Seville a treatise in Arabic on the
astrolabe . This he himself translated into Hebrew atBarcelona in 1378.Chayyim ibn Musa ascribes kabbalistic miracles to Carsono.----
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.