Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Plato Tiburtinus (lat.: Plato Tiburtinus, fl. 12th century : Plato of Tivoli) was a 12th-century Italian mathematician, astronomer and translator who lived in Barcelona from 1116 to 1138. He is best known for translating Hebrew and Arabic documents into Latin, and was apparently the first to translate information on the astrolabe (an astronomical instrument) from Arabic.Plato of Tivoli translated the Arab astrologer Albohali's "Book of Birth" into Latin in 1136.. }
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- Plato_Tiburtinus comment "Plato Tiburtinus (lat.: Plato Tiburtinus, fl. 12th century : Plato of Tivoli) was a 12th-century Italian mathematician, astronomer and translator who lived in Barcelona from 1116 to 1138. He is best known for translating Hebrew and Arabic documents into Latin, and was apparently the first to translate information on the astrolabe (an astronomical instrument) from Arabic.Plato of Tivoli translated the Arab astrologer Albohali's "Book of Birth" into Latin in 1136.".