Gerard de Crémone (born v. 1114 with Casement bolt, Lombardy, Italy - died v. 1187) was a writer and Traducteur Italy N of the Moyen-âge, whose considerable work at the 12th century made it possible to find many “scientific treasures” of the Antiquité.

Biography

August 1st To inform itself near the Moor S of Spain, then agents and interpreters of the scientific treasures of the Antiquity, it came to Tolède to learn how the Arab and translated more than 80 Arab scientific works into Latin of which the Almageste of Ptolémée, the Coniques of Apollonius, several treaties of Aristote, the Canon of Avicenne, the Al-Tasrif of Aboulcassis and various writings of Al-Kindi, of Thabit ibn Qurra and Al-Razi.

Gerard de Crémone was probably the most prolific translator of his century. It will be retained in particular that according to him: It is necessary that a good translator, in addition to an excellent knowledge of the language which it translates and of that in which it expresses, has the knowledge of the discipline concernée.

See too

• the Middle Ages: exchanges with Islamic civilization

• Islamic Sciences and technology
• medieval Philosophy

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