Jacobus Golius

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Jacob Golius, born Jacob van Gool (1596 – September 28, 1667), was a Dutch orientalist and mathematician based at the Leiden University in the Netherlands. He is primarily remembered as an Orientalist. He published Arabic texts in Arabic at Leiden, and did Arabic-to-Latin translations.

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