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Adelard of Bath

أديلارد الباثيّ

Notable figure fl. c. 1116–1142 · Source: Marshall Clagett, Adelard of Bath, Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography (2008), Encyclopedia.com · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Adélard de Bath

Field: Translation

Affiliation

Put al-Khwarizmi's tables and Euclid's Elements into Latin

Biography

An Englishman from Bath, he studied at Tours, taught at Laon, then travelled for seven years through Salerno, Sicily, Cilicia and Syria. From the Arabic he translated al-Khwarizmi's tables in Maslama al-Majriti's revision, the whole of Euclid's Elements, probably from al-Hajjaj's version, Abu Ma'shar's Shorter Introduction and a work by Thabit ibn Qurra on images and horoscopes. Where he learned Arabic is unknown; perhaps Sicily. It has been proposed that Petrus Alfonsi helped with the tables, but this cannot be shown.