Gerard of Cremona (c. 1114-87)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3649. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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History And Archaeoastronomy, Biographies

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Italian scholar, born in Cremona, Italy, flourished in Toledo, a centre of Islamic culture, learned Arabic to be able to translate lost classical works. He translated 92 works in all, including the Almagest, Elements, AL-KHWARIZMI's works, the Hippocratic writers, and the physical works of ARISTOTLE. Unfortunately, no mathematician, he could not understand the Almagest after translating it....

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