Elias Höchheimer

Elias ben Ḥayyim Cohen Höchheimer (or Hechim) was an eighteenth century Jewish astronomer and mathematician.

Born in Hochheim, Höchheimer lived a long time in Hildburghausen and died in Amsterdam. He was the author of Shebile di-Reḳi'a (Prague, 1784), on trigonometry and astronomy, Sefer Yalde ha-Zeman (Prague, 1786), a commentary on Jedaiah Bedersi's Beḥinat ha-'Olam, and two German-language textbooks on arithmetic.[1]

References
  1.  Deutsch, Gotthard; Kayserling, Meyer; Adler, Cyrus; Szold, Henrietta (1901–1906). "Höchheimer (Höċhheim, Hochheimer, Hechim)". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
  • Allg. Zeit. des Jud. xliv. 652.
  • Fürst, Bibl. Jud. i. 367, 402.
  • Jac. Zwarts, Het verblijf van Prins Willem V ten huize van den joodschen tabaksplanter Benjamin Cohen (Utrecht 1921), p. 16.
  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gotthard Deutsch, Meyer Kayserling, Cyrus Adler, and Henrietta Szold (1901–1906). "Höchheimer (Höċhheim, Hochheimer, Hechim)". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)



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