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title: "Baruch Lindau"
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source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baruch_Lindau"
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category: "reference"
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tags: "science, encyclopedia"
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Baruch ben Jehuda Löb Lindau (Hebrew: בָּרוּךְ בֶּן יְהוּדָה לֵייבּ לינדא; 1759, Hanover, Holy Roman Empire – 5 December 1849, Berlin, Prussia) was a Jewish-German mathematician, science writer, and translator.
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Lindau became a member of the maskilim circle in Berlin, publishing articles on science and scientific instruments in ha-Me'assef. He was a counselor of the maskilic association Chevrat shocharai Ha'tov ve'hatushiya and translated several haftarot into German for Mendelssohn's Bi'ur project.
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In 1789, he published Reshit Limmudim, his most successful work. It was a Hebrew scientific textbook containing sections on astronomy, physics, biology, and geography. The second part, Reshit Limmudim, was published in 1810 and devoted to physics, chemistry, and mechanics. The work remained a popular scientific encyclopedia among European Jews for nearly a century.
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== References ==
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Deutsch, Gotthard; Mannheimer, S. (1901–1906). "Lindau, Baruch ben Jehuda Löb". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. |