Baruch Lindau

Baruch ben Jehuda Löb Lindau was a History of [the Jews in Germany|Jewish-German] mathematician, science writer, and translator.
Lindau became a member of the maskilim circle in Berlin, publishing articles on science and scientific instruments in ha-Me'assef. He was a counselor of the maskilic association Chevrat shocharai Ha'tov ve'hatushiya and translated several haftarot into German for Mendelssohn's Bi'ur project.
In 1789, he published , his most successful work. It was a Hebrew scientific textbook containing sections on astronomy, physics, biology, and geography. The second part, Reshit Limmudim, was published in 1810 and devoted to physics, chemistry, and mechanics. The work remained a popular scientific encyclopedia among European Jews for nearly a century.