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Gerard of Cremona

جيرار الكريموني

Notable figure c. 1114–1187 · Source: Richard Lemay, Gerard of Cremona, Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography (2008), Encyclopedia.com · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Gérard de Crémone (1114-1187)

From Italy; worked in Spain

Field: Translation

Affiliation

Most prolific translator from Arabic: Almagest, Avicenna

Biography

Born at Cremona, he went to Toledo for the Almagest, which did not yet exist in Latin, learned Arabic there and worked there for some forty years. His companions listed seventy-one books he translated from Arabic, among them Ptolemy's Almagest, Avicenna's Canon, al-Razi's Liber Almansorius, al-Khwarizmi's Algebra and Euclid's Elements. Galib the Mozarab helped him with the Almagest; no helper is named on any other translation.