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Henri Bate (1246 - 1310)


Field(s) of interest: philosophy | theology | astronomy | scientific instruments
Gender: male

Born: Mechelen, 24-03-1246
Died: Tongerlo, 1310

Biography:
Henri Bate (Henry Bate of Malines) was a Flemish philosopher, theologian, astronomer, astrologer, poet, and musician. He received a degree at the University of Paris before 1274. He was a pupil of Thomas Aquinas. As an astronomer, he made astrolabes and wrote the 'Magistralis compositio astrolabii', dedicated to his friend Willem van Moerbeke. He drew up astronomical tables: the Tabule Mechlinenses, from around 1285-1295. While in Rome in 1292, he wrote commentaries on the astrological works of Abraham ibn Ezra and Albumasar. He became tutor to Guy de Hainaut, brother of Count Jean d'Avesnes, for whom he wrote A Speculum divinorum et quorundam naturalium (Mirror of Divine Matters and Other Natural Things) between 1285 and 1305.

Occupations:
theologian, treasurer and precentor of the cathedral of Liège, chancellor of the university of Parisr: 1246 - 1310

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