Adelard of Bath, d. 1144
- an example of the Western scholar
who were intensely curious about all the Greek learning that had been preserved by the
Moslems - he translated many Arabic works into Latin so that
they could be used in the West,
especially Euclid’s Elements (on geometry and math) and an Arabic work on arithmetic that used
Arabic numerals (thereby introducing them to Europe)
- other translators provided Latin
versions of works on science, logic, algebra, astrology and medicine
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