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]