Gerard of Cremona

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Gerard of Cremona was a 12th-century Italian translator renowned for rendering numerous major scientific and philosophical works from Arabic into Latin, greatly influencing medieval European scholarship.

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instanceOf Italian person
human
medieval scholar
translator
activeYears mid-12th century
centuryOfBirth 12th century
countryOfCitizenship Italy
dateOfBirth c. 1114
dateOfDeath 1187
describedAs one of the most prolific translators of the Toledo School
era High Middle Ages
fieldOfWork astronomy
mathematics
medicine
philosophy
translation of scientific texts
influenced Scholastic philosophy NERFINISHED
medieval European science
knownFor dissemination of Greek and Arabic science in Western Europe
translating Arabic scientific texts into Latin
languageOfWorkOrName Arabic
Latin
movement Toledo School of Translators NERFINISHED
name Gerard of Cremona NERFINISHED
nativeLanguage Latin
notableWork Latin translation of Avicenna's Canon of Medicine
Latin translation of Ptolemy's Almagest
Latin translation of al-Khwarizmi's astronomical tables
Latin translations of works by Archimedes
Latin translations of works by Aristotle
Latin translations of works by Euclid
Latin translations of works by Galen
Latin translations of works by Hippocrates
Latin translations of works by Jabir ibn Aflah
Latin translations of works by Thabit ibn Qurra
Latin translations of works by al-Farabi
Latin translations of works by al-Razi
numberOfWorksTranslated over 70 GENERATED
occupation astronomer
physician
scholar
translator
placeOfBirth Cremona NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath Kingdom of Castile NERFINISHED
Toledo NERFINISHED
reasonForMoveToToledo to study Ptolemy's Almagest in Arabic
religion Roman Catholicism
surface form: Catholicism
translatedFromLanguage Arabic
translatedIntoLanguage Latin NERFINISHED
workLocation Toledo NERFINISHED

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