Gerard of Cremona - Wikipedia
WEBGerard of Cremona (Latin: Gerardus Cremonensis; c. 1114 – 1187) was an Italian translator of scientific books from Arabic into Latin. He worked in Toledo, Kingdom of Castile and obtained the Arabic books in the libraries at Toledo.
Gerard of Cremona | Translator, Astronomer, Mathematician
WEBGerard of Cremona (born c. 1114, Cremona, Lombardy [Italy]—died 1187, Toledo, kingdom of Castile [Spain]) was a European medieval scholar who translated the works of many major Greek and Arabic writers into Latin.
Gerard Of Cremona - Encyclopedia.com
WEBJun 8, 2018 · Gerard of Cremona was the most prolific translator of scientific and philosophical works from Arabic in the Middle Ages. He also has been credited with a few “original” works in the same fields, although these attributions are less certain.
Gherard of Cremona - MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive
WEBGherard of Cremona was an Italian mathematician who worked in Spain and translated mathematical works from Arabic into Latin. Biography. Gherard of Cremona's name is often written as Gerard or sometimes Gerhard.
Gerard of Cremona - Wikiwand
WEBGerard of Cremona is the most important translator among the Toledo School of Translators who invigorated Western medieval Europe in the twelfth century by transmitting the Arabs' and ancient Greeks' knowledge in astronomy, medicine and other sciences, by making the knowledge available in Latin.
GERARD OF CREMONA - Columbia University
WEBGERARD OF CREMONA, 1114-1187, was the greatest of the early translators of Arabic works into Latin. He traveled to Toledo with the specific purpose of learning Arabic in order to translate Ptolemy's Almagest and other works not available in the Latin West into Latin.
Gerard of Cremona - Oxford Reference
WEB(1114–87) Italian philosophical translator. Interested in Arabic astronomy, Gerard removed himself to Toledo, where he learned Arabic. He translated the Almagest of Ptolemy, the entire works of Avicenna, and many of the works of Aristotle into Latin, opening them up to the scholars of western Europe.
Gerard of Cremona (updated) - SpringerLink
WEBGerard of Cremona (updated) Born Cremona, (Italy), circa 1114. Died Toledo, (Spain), or Cremona, (Italy), 1187. Gerard's principal contributions were his translations of Arabic texts on astronomy and other sciences. Gerard received his basic education in …
Gerard of Cremona (1114–87) - Routledge Encyclopedia of …
WEBGerard of Cremona was the most important translator of philosophical works from Arabic to Latin in the twelfth century. During a career of about forty years, he translated at least seventy books.
Gerard of Cremona’s Latin translation of the - SAGE Journals
WEBFeb 4, 2023 · In the Latin West knowledge of the Almagest was constituted by Gerard of Cremona’s (1114–87) translation from Arabic into Latin, which I will refer to as Gerard’s Latin Almagest throughout this work.
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