Henry Bate or Hendrik Baten (of Mechelen or of Malines) a.k.a. Henricus Batenus (Mechliniensis)In all five languages that this English language Wikipedia inspected, the first name and family name may occur with or without mentioning his place of origin, and remarkably, apart from Dutch and rarely in Latin, the first name and origin can be found without his family name. In his native Dutch language and in German, the latter appears as either ''Baten'' or ''Bate''; in French and English the latter spelling clearly prevails. Hence in these languages he is referred to as ''Hendrik Bate an Mechelen', ''Heinrich ate[n von Mecheln'', ''Henri [Bate">.html" ;"title="ate[n">ate[n von Mecheln'', ''Henri [Batede Malines'', and ''Henry [Bate] of Mechelen'' respectively although in particular in English, the French translation of his birthplace is equally common: ''of Malines'' (and in German one very rarely finds ''de Malines'' and once ''von Malines''). Texts in any language may show his Latinized name ''Henricus Batenus echliniensis'. (24 March 1246 in

Mechelen Mechelen (; french: Malines ; traditional English name: MechlinMechelen has been known in English as ''Mechlin'', from where the adjective ''Mechlinian'' is derived. This name may still be used, especially in a traditional or historical contex ...

– after 1310 in

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) was a

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philosopher, theologian, astronomer, astrologer, poet, and musician. He was

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of the

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before 1274. He was a pupil of

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, he became a canon and cantor of the Cathedral of Saint-Lambert,

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before 1289. As astronomer, he made

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s, and wrote ''Magistralis compositio astrolabii'', dedicated to his friend William of Moerbeke. He drew up astronomical tables: the ''Tabule Mechlinenses'', from around 1285–1295, and a 1290 work, ''De erroribus tabularum Alphonsi'', which pointed out errors in the Alfonsine tables. While in Rome in 1292, he wrote commentaries on the astrological works of Abraham ibn Ezra and

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. He became tutor to Guy de Hainaut, brother of Count

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, for whom he wrote, between 1285 and 1305, a ''Speculum divinorum et quorundam naturalium'' (On the Unity of Natural). Around 1309, he retired with the Premonstratensians of Tongerloo, where he ended his days.

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*Benoît Beyer de Ryke
Biography (PDF)

BATEN,_Henri
(which mentions H.B. of Malines as author of another work (or an otherwise renamed edition) pointing out the errors in the Alphonsine tables)
Biographical and bibliographical notes
in: Alcuin Database of Scholastic Authors, Regensburg. {{DEFAULTSORT:Bate, Henry 1246 births 14th-century deaths 13th-century astronomers 14th-century astronomers 13th-century philosophers 14th-century philosophers 13th-century Latin writers 14th-century Latin writers People from the Duchy of Brabant 14th-century people of the Holy Roman Empire