Bronze sculpture of philosopher, theologian & doctor, Cordovan Ben Maimónides, which was erected in 1964. Maimónides was a jewish scholar from the Middle Ages who was born and raised in Cordoba. He tried to show that the philosophy of the ancient Greek thinker, Aristotle, and Judaism supported each other. Moshe ben Maimon, was his name in Hebrew, but he became known as “Maimónides”, not only was he an important philosopher and astronomer he was also the most prolific and influential Torah scholars and physician of the middle ages.