Guillaume Postel was a French linguist, Orientalist, astronomer, Christian Kabbalist, diplomat, polyglot, professor, religious universalist, and writer.
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Note of Guillaume Postel on the Arabic astronomical manuscript of al-Kharaqī, Muntahā al-idrāk fī taqāsīm al-aflāk ("The Ultimate Grasp of the Divisions of Spheres"), 1536, Constantinople![Page from Linguarum Duodecim Characteribus Differentium Alphabetum Introductio including what is thought to be the first Western representation of a Hasmonean coin[1]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Samaritan_letters_and_Jerusalem_coin%2C_Guillaume_Postel_1538%2C_Linguarum_duodecim_characteribus_differentium_alphabetum%2C_introductio.png/500px-Samaritan_letters_and_Jerusalem_coin%2C_Guillaume_Postel_1538%2C_Linguarum_duodecim_characteribus_differentium_alphabetum%2C_introductio.png)
Page from Linguarum Duodecim Characteribus Differentium Alphabetum Introductio including what is thought to be the first Western representation of a Hasmonean coin[1]
De la République des Turcs, Guillaume Postel, Poitiers, 1560![Guillaume Postel: "Chasdia or Terra Australis, which the common sailors call Tierra del Fuego and others say is the Land of the Parrots"[5]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Guillaume_Postel_CHASDIA_seu_Australis_terra.jpg/1280px-Guillaume_Postel_CHASDIA_seu_Australis_terra.jpg)
Guillaume Postel: "Chasdia or Terra Australis, which the common sailors call Tierra del Fuego and others say is the Land of the Parrots"[5]
Arabic astronomical manuscript of Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, annotated by Guillaume Postel
Guillaume PostelWriters born in the 1510s 6
About this person
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1510 to 1581 · aged 71
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