Plato Tiburtinus (
Latin: Plato Tiburtinus, "Plato of
Tivoli";
fl. 12th century) was a 12th-century
Italianmathematician,
astronomer and
translator who lived in
Barcelona from 1116 to 1138.[1] 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.
The Liber Embadorum (“
Book of Areas,” or “
Practical Geometry”), it was transferred (after a date
astronomical specified in the text ) in 1145 from the
Hebrew. The book had an influence on the
Geometry of Fibonacci book and contains one of the first comprehensive treatments of quadratic equations in the
Occident.