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22. IngentaConnect GERARD OF CREMONA: THE DANGER OF BEING HALF-ACCULTURATED gerard of cremona THE DANGER OF BEING HALFACCULTURATED. Author Weber, Michael C.Source Medieval Encounters, Volume 8, Numbers 2-3, 2002, pp. http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/brill/me/2002/00000008/F0020002/art00002

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23. DODECHEDRON : Gerard Of Cremona Astronomical Geomancy (E.V.) geomantic handbook, geomantic museum, online divination, geomantic Atlas. http://www.geomance.com/dodecaev/gdcev.htm

GERARD CREMONENSIS OF ASTRONOMICAL GEOMANCY. B Note Picture of an astrological square divided in twelve houses with planets and zodiac symbols Questions of the first House. Jupiter signifies Bishops, Prelates, Nobles, Potentates, Judges, Wife men, Merchants and furers. Mars signifies Warriors, Incendiaries, Homicides, Physitians, Barbers, Hangmen, Gold-smiths, Cooks, furnaces, and all fireworks. And if Mars be in strong Signs, he will be poor and die in captivity, unless he put himself in arms with some souldier of vassal. The Sun sinifieth Emperors, Kings, Princes, Nobles, Lords and Judges. Venus signifies Queens and Ladies, Mariages, Communications, Friendship, Apothecaries, Taylors, and such as make Ornaments for playes , sellers of Cloth, Jesters, Vintners, Players at dice, Whores and Robbers. Mercury signifies Clerks, Philosophers, Astrologers, Geometricians, Arithmeticians, Latine writers, and Painters, and all subtil Artists, as well men as women, and their Arts. Questions of the second House.

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25. Medieval Translation Table 3: Greek Sources After 1100 gerard of cremona and others from Arabic. William of Moerbeke from Greek perhaps gerard of cremona from Arabic (of this translation only a short http://inst.santafe.cc.fl.us/~jbieber/HS/trans3.htm

THE PRINCIPAL SOURCES OF ANCIENT SCIENCE IN WESTERN CHRISTENDOM BETWEEN A.D. 500 AND A.D. 1300 (3) Greek Sources from c. 1100+ Author Work Latin translator and language of original of translation Place and date of Latin translation Hippocrates and school (5th, 4th centuries B.C.) Aphorisms Various treatises Burgundio of Pisa from Greek Gerard of Cremona and others from Arabic William of Moerbeke from Greek 12th century Toledo 12th century after 1260 Aristotle (384-22 B.C.) Posterior Analytics (part of logica nova Meteorologic (Book 4) Two versions from Greek from Arabic Henricus Aristippus form Greek 12th century Toledo 12th century Sicily c. Aristotle (384-22 B.C.) Physica, De Generatione et Corruptione, Parva Naturalia, Metaphysica (1st 4 books), De Anima Meteorogica (Books 1-3), Physica, De Caelo et Mundo, De Generatione et Corruptione De Animaibus (Historia animalium, De partibus animalium, De generatione animalium trans. Into Arabic in 19 books by el-Batric, 9th century) Almost complete works from Greek Gerard of Cremoma from arabic Michael Scot from Arabic William of Moerbeke, new or revised translations from Greek

26. Medieval Translation Table 2: Arabic Sources (d.901), Liber Charastonis (on the Roman balance), gerard of cremona from Arabic Aristotelis de Naturali Auditu, gerard of cremona from Arabic, Toledo http://inst.santafe.cc.fl.us/~jbieber/HS/trans2.htm

THE PRINCIPAL SOURCES OF ANCIENT SCIENCE IN WESTERN CHRISTENDOM BETWEEN A.D. 500 AND A.D. 1300 (2) Arabic Sources from c. 1000 Author Work Latin translator and language of original of translation Place and date of Latin translation Jabir in Hayyan corpus (written 9th-10th centuries) Various chemical works from Arabic 12th and 13th centuries Al-Khwarizmi (9th century) Liber Ysagogarum Alchoismi (arithmetic) Astronomical tables (trigonometry) Algebra Adelard of Bath from Arabic Adelard of Bath from Arabic Robert of Chester from Arabic early 12th century Segovia 1145 Alkindi (d. c. De Aspectibus; De Umbris et de Diversitate Aspectuum Gerard of Cremona from Arabic Toledo 12th Century Thabit ibn Qurra (d.901) Liber Charastonis (on the Roman balance) Gerard of Cremona from Arabic Toledo 12th Century Rhazes (d. c. De Aluminibus et Salibus (chemical work) Liber Continens (medical encyclopaedia) Liber Almansoris (medical compilation based on Greek sources) Gerard of Cremona from Arabic Moses Farachi from Arabic Gerard of Cremona from Arabic Toledo 12th century Sicily 1279 Toledo 12th century Alfarabi (d. 950)

27. THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Series One: The Papers Of Sir Hans Sloane, Avicenna, Libri Canonis, translated by gerard of cremona gerard of cremona,Ptolemaei Pelusiensis liber Almagesti in Latinum versus http://www.ampltd.co.uk/collections_az/HistSc-1-5/contents-of-reels.aspx

@import url(/css/ampstyle.css); @import url(/css/general.css); A B C D ... P Q R S T U V W X Y Z THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Series One: The Papers of Sir Hans Sloane, 1660-1753, from the British Library, London Part 5: Alchemy, Chemistry and Magic CONTENTS OF REELS (with summary list of key items) REEL 76 Sloane Ms 2157: (14th c) Avicenna, Libri Canonis, translated by Gerard of Cremona Lull, Ramon, of Majorca, Clavicula (ff40-44) Ripley, George, Compound of alchemy in prose (ff73-85) Norton, Thomas, The ordinal of alchemy, (ff89-116) Sloane Ms 2198: (17th c) Ripley, George, Compound of alchemy in verse REEL 77 Sloane Ms 2206: (17th c) Anon, Introduction to chemistry Sloane Ms 2218: (17th c) Anon, A looking glasse for illiterate alchymists Sloane Ms 2264: (17th c) Anon, Course of chemistry Sloane Ms 2320: (16th c) Aristiotle, Letters to Alexander (ff10-13) Bacon, Roger, Summaria expositio epistola practica (ff27-29) Arnald of Villanova, Tractatus de vinis (ff32-54) Bacon, Roger, De retardatione senectutis (ff56-64) Anon, De arte magicali (ff65-69)

28. THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Series One: The Papers Of Sir Hans Sloane, gerard of cremona De dandis catharticis (ff1825) Aristotle, Letters toAlexander (ff180-185) Rasis, Works translated by gerard of cremona (ff3-114) http://www.ampltd.co.uk/collections_az/HistSc-1-4/contents-of-reels.aspx

@import url(/css/ampstyle.css); @import url(/css/general.css); A B C D ... P Q R S T U V W X Y Z THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Series One: The Papers of Sir Hans Sloane, 1660-1753, from the British Library, London Part 4: Alchemy, Chemistry and Magic CONTENTS OF REELS (with summary list of key items) REEL 58 Sloane Ms 59: (15th c) Arnald of Villanova, Tractatus vinorum diversorum (ff2-20) Aristotle, Liber Anathomie (ff36-98) Arnald of Villanova and Johannis de Tornomera, Alchemical receipts. (ff106-147) Aristotle, Letter to Alexander (ff203-206) Sloane Ms 73: (15th c) Hermes Trismegistus, De quintis essentiis (ff7-22) Arnald of Villanova, Alchemical receipts. (ff24-46). Sloane Ms 75: (15th c) Bacon, Roger, and John de Rupecissa, de quinta essentia (ff99-120) Lull, Ramon, of Majorca, Ars operatura. (ff157-161) Lull, Ramon, of Majorca, Prologus Monaldi (ff162-164) Lull, Ramon, of Majorca, De xvi electuariis (f183) Lull, Ramon, of Majorca, List of works (f185) REEL 59 Salomon, King of Israel, Experimenta naturae (ff90-93)

29. Encyclopedia Of Astronomy And Astrophysics » Gerard Of Cremona (c. 1114–87 gerard of cremona (c. 1114–87). DOI 10.1888/0333750888/3649; PublishedNovember 2000. Icon Full text (PDF, 21K). Article summary http://eaa.iop.org/index.cfm?action=summary&doc=eaa/3649@eaa-xml

30. Gerard Of Cremona gerard of cremona (c. 1114– 1187), the medieval translator of Ptolemy s 2392 is stated to contain a eulogy of gerard of cremona ” and a list of his http://www.ermeland.de/gerard.htm

GERARD OF CREMONA (c. 1114– 1187), the medieval translator of Ptolemy's Astronomy, was born at Cremona, Lombardy, in or about 1114. Dissatisfied with the meagre philosophies of his Italian teachers, he went to Toledo to study in Spanish Moslem schools, then so famous as depositories and interpreters of ancient wisdom; and, having thus acquired a knowledge of the Arabic language, he appears to have devoted the remainder of his life to the business of making Latin translations from its literature. The date of his return to his native town is uncertain, but he is known to have died there in 1187. His most celebrated work is the Latin version by which alone Ptolemy's Almagest Tables of "Arzakhel,” or Al Zarkala of Toledo, Al Farabi On the Sciences (De scientiis), Euclid's Geometry, Al Farghani's Elements of Astronomy, and treatises on algebra, arithmetic and astrology. In the last-named latitudes are reckoned from Cremona and Toledo. Some of the works, however, with which he has been credited (including the Theoria or Theorica planetarum

31. MuslimHeritage.com - Muslim Scholars But now, with the translations by gerard of cremona, beginning to infiltrate R. Lemay gerard of cremona; Dictionary of Scientific Biography; Vol 15; http://www.muslimheritage.com/day_life/default.cfm?ArticleID=434&Oldpage=1

32. Mathematics The latter s contribution was translated into Latin by gerard of cremona andedited by H. Later on this book was translated by gerard of cremona also. http://www.netmuslims.com/info/mathematics.html

Mathematics Muslims have made immense contributions to almost all branches of the sciences and arts, but mathematics was their favourite subject and its development owes a great deal to the genius of Arab and persian scholars. The advancement in different branches of mathematical science commenced during the Caliphate of Omayyads, and Hajjaj bin Yusuf, who was himself a translator of Euclid as well as a great patron of mathematicians. Translations Arithmetic Arabs were the founders of every day arithmetic and taught the use of ciphers to the world. Musa al-Khwarizmi (780850 A.D.) a native of Khwarizm, who lived in the reign of Mamun-ar-Rashid, was one of the greatest mathematicians of all times. He composed the oldest Islamic works on arithmetic and algebra which were the principal source of knowledge on the subject for a fairly long time. George Sarton pays glowing tribute to this outstanding Muslim mathematician and considers him "one of the greatest scientists of his race and the greatest of his time".' He systematised Greek and Hindu mathematical knowledge and profoundly influenced mathematical thought during mediaeval times. He championed the use of Hindu numerals and has the distinction of being the author of the oldest Arabic work on arithmetic known as Kitab-ul Jama wat Tafriq. The original version of this work has disappeared but its Latin translation Trattati a" Arithmetic edited by Bon Compagni in 1157 at Rome is still in existence.

33. Astronomy was translated into Latin in 1135 A. D. by John of Seville and gerard of cremona . which was later translated into Latin by gerard of cremona, http://www.netmuslims.com/info/astronomy.html

Astronomy Astronomy, in the real sense, started among the Arabs during the early period of the Abbasid Caliphate. It was much influenced by Sidhanta, a work in Sanskrit brought from India to Baghdad and translated into Arabic by Ibn Ibrahim al-Fazari and later on by Abu Musa Khwarizmi. Pahlavi tables (zij) compiled during the Sasanid period and Greek astronomical works translated during this period prepared the ground for Arabian astronomy. Ptolemy's Al-magest went into several translations in Arabicthe best being the one by Hajjaj Ibn Mater (827-28) and another by Humayun Ibn Ishaq, revised by Thabit bin Qurra (d/901). Khwarizmi has written a valuable treatise on astronomy and has compiled his own Tables (zij) which, after two centuries was revised by Spanish atronomer Majriti (011007) and was translated into Latin by Adelard of Bath. This formed the basis of later astronomical pursuits both in the East and the West and replaced all earlier tables of Greek and Indian astronomers. This table was also adopted in China. Mashallah and Ahmad bin Muhammad alNahavandi were the earliest Arab astronomers who flourished during the reign of Mansur, the second Abbasid Caliph. Mashallah was called the Phoenix of his age by Abul Faraj. He is distinguished for writing several valuable treatises on 'Astrolabe' the armillary sphere and the movements of heavenly bodies which have been acclaimed by later scientists. Ahmad compiled from his observations an astronomical table known as Al-Mustamal which registered an advance over earlier notions of the Greeks and Hindus.

34. BBC - Religion & Ethics - Voices From The Dark The city was abuzz with Daniel s fellow scholars gerard of cremona, the mostprolific of all Arabic translators; Herman the German, translator of Aristotle http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/programmes/misc/voicesdark_script2.html

Voices From The Dark programme 2, Wednesday 11th August 2004 MUSIC and BIRDSONG READING 1 St Mary's at Flitcham is a Norman church, built on the site of the original 7th century one. The Norman building had a central tower, much of which has survived repeated alterations. It was restored and repointed in 1981. LINK 1: The Norfolk village of Flitcham is a pretty place, very much what you'd expect of the English countryside, specially the mellow old church of St Mary's. But its roll-call of vicars contains a remarkable name: Daniel Morley, incumbent towards the end of the 12th century. He was no doubt respected in the local thatched cottages but he was really famous somewhere else: the Spanish city of Toledo. MUSIC 2: CD "SPAIN" TRACK 12 ARCHIVIST Ramon Gonzalvez Ruiz Daniel de Morley (was an Englishman who) travelled Europe in search of knowledge, on his own account and with the permission of the Bishop of Norwich. So he was looking throughout Europe, and he wasn't satisfied with what he found. He was in search of the natural sciences, and he decided they could only be found here in Toledo. LINK: I've followed in the scholars' footsteps and, along with a student who's showing me round, Belen Higueras Tapia, I've stumbled on to a surprise.

35. Walter Berschin - 8. Spain And The Arabism Of The High Middle Ages The first high point of the school was reached with gerard of cremona;123 After gerard of cremona, Michael Scot was the great translator from Arabic;124 http://www.myriobiblos.gr/texts/english/Walter_Berschin_38.html

On Line Library of the Church of Greece Walter Berschin From the Middle of the Eleven Century to the Latin Conquest of Constantinople From: Greek Letters and the Latin Middle Ages From Jerome to Nicholas of Cusa. Translated by Jerold C. Frakes. Revised and expanded edition. The Catholic University of America Press, http://cuapress.cua.edu/ 8. Spain and the Arabism of the High Middle Ages- Dionysius the Areopagite in the West The myth of the Dark Ages no longer determines the consideration of the epoch with which we are here concerned, the period between 1100 and 1150. It has, on the contrary, become the custom to speak of a "Renaissance of the twelfth century": the darkness has receded to more remote periods. Ιn due course of time, however, it will appear that the attribute of darkness refers rather to the modern historian's lack of knowledge than to any lack of thought in those centuries. Klibansky, "The School of Chartres,"

36. Astronomy And Astrology In The Twelfth Century There he encountered gerard of cremona, who had translated among many other worksPtolemy s Almagest. Gerard had founded a school of translators and was http://explorers.whyte.com/astrol.htm

Astronomy and Astrology in the 12th century Preface January 1999: I presented this paper at the 6th Irish Conference of Medievalists in Maynooth on 26 June 1992, and put it on-line as an experiment when I first designed the Alliance Party web-site in 1995. It has long since been deleted from its original location, but there has been some interest in it from the on-line community, so here it is again, sadly without any footnotes or references though I hope to change that before too long. Thanks to Marilynn Lawrence for finding it for me. The M Phil dissertation from which this lecture drew, as well as my history of science essays, on the transmission of science Richard of Wallingford Sir Robert Ball , and medieval time-keeping , are now on this site, as are also short notes on the assassination of Domitian and the "Curse of the Presidents" . If you find this useful, please let me know. This page has had visitors since 23 July 1999. Introduction: John of Salisbury If one is looking for an illustrative twelfth-century intellectual, one cannot do much better than John of Salisbury. Book II of his Policraticus is devoted to a general discussion of omens, divination and the philosophical problems of predestination. He makes his distaste for astrologers clear, lumping them in with "practitioners of other trivialities", but it is clear that his difficulties with them were not entirely due to a philosophical disagreement. In chapter 19, he says:

37. W. B. Yeats And "A Vision": Giraldus that ‘the basis for Giraldus is not Giraldus Cambrensis but gerard of cremona, but it is usually referred to as the work of gerard of cremona, http://www.yeatsvision.com/Gyraldus.html

Giraldus ‘The Discoveries of Michael Robartes’, typescript dialogue of Robartes and Aherne, YVP c.f. AV A AV B Geraldus, Giraldus, Gyraldus? Yeats’s spelling was rather weak and somewhat erratic; added to this, many mediaeval and Renaissance names appear in several versions, both vernacular and Latin, and vary hugely. Shakespeare famously spelt his own surname in a number of different ways, to which his contemporaries added further variants. The name of Yeats’s character was given as ‘Geraldus’ on his first appearance in print in the Preface to Michael Robartes and the Dancer in 1921 ( VP 853), but as ‘Giraldus’ in AV A and then AV B , and this is followed by most critics. The other variant Yeats uses here, which appears in Laurie’s prospectus for subscribers and generally in the Script , ‘Gyraldus’, may be linked to a wordplay on ‘gyre’, though it appeared several months before the first use of the term ‘gyre’ in the Automatic Script. Is there an historical Giraldus? As discussed in the background to the fictions , Yeats first appears to have mentioned the mysterious writer, Giraldus, in a letter Augusta Gregory (4 January 1918; L 644), but he had obviously been considering him even earlier, since Dulac had already been asked for a portrait (see below). The name appears in the Automatic Script on 12 January 1918 in one of the answers, ‘Gyraldus primary // Arab anti’, already linked to a contrasting Arab perspective. The draft quoted above was used with minor changes in

38. Skyscript: Astrology Texts Available On The Internet (See also gerard of cremona). Facsimile image, Anonymous Introduction to HTML document, gerard of cremona - Of Astronomical geomancy - 12th cent. http://www.skyscript.co.uk/texts.html

Main Collection Extended Collection KEY TO PRESENTATION: Web page PDF document Graphic Image Word doc. FREE UTILITIES: Acrobat Reader Unzipping Tool The main collection contains links to books that are directly related to astrology. The extended collection refers to texts that are partly astrological or useful for historical research or philosophical principles. Books are listed alphabetically by author's surname. All of the books are available for free public viewing or download. Please support the efforts of these publishers by visiting their home pages. Main Collection Abu Mashar Libri Mysteriorum; The astrological metaphors - 9th cent. Daria Dudziak has provided an English version of Giuseppe Bezza's Italian translation. Abu Mashar, or Albumazar, was a source for many later authors. This is an extract rather than a full text. Al Biruni Al Biruni's List of Parts - 11th cent. Al Biruni's treatment of the astrological parts - extracted from The Book of Instruction in the Elements of the Art of Astrology , (written at Ghaznah, 1029 AD), following the R. Ramsay Wright translation (1934). Verses 476 - 479.

39. Khorezmi Both, gerard of cremona and Adelard of Bath, translators of the works of gerard of cremona worked with a Mozarab named Galippus, who may merit greater http://www.disc-conference.org/disc2000/mirror/khorezmi/

Information about the word Algorithm 14th International Symposium on DIStributed Computing (DISC 2000) October 4-6, 2000 Toledo, Spain http://www.disc2000.org News Registration Payment ... Jeff Miller The origin of the word 'Algorithm' The word "algorithm" itself is quite interesting; at first glance it may look as though someone intended to write "logarithm" but jumbled up the first four letters. The word did not appear in Webster's New World Dictionary as late as 1957; we find only the older form "algorism" with its ancient meaning, i.e., the process of doing arithmetic using Arabic numerals. In the middle ages, abacists computed on the abacus and algorists computed by algorism. Following the middle ages, the origin of this word was in doubt, and early linguists attempted to guess at its derivation by making combinations like algiros [painful] + arithmos Kitab al jabr w'al'muqabala ("Rules of restoration and reduction"); another word, "algebra," stems from the title of his book, although the book wasn't really very algebraic. Gradually the form and meaning of "algorism" became corrupted; as explained by the Oxford English Dictionary, the word was "erroneously refashioned" by "learned confusion" with the word

40. Almagest -- Facts, Info, And Encyclopedia Article (Click link for more info and facts about gerard of cremona) gerard of cremonawas unable to translate many technical terms, even retained the Arabic http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/a/al/almagest.htm

Almagest [Categories: astronomy books, Roman era books] Almagest is Latin form of the (The Semitic language of the Arabs; spoken in a variety of dialects) Arabic name ( al-kitabu-l-mijisti , i.e. "The Great Book) of an (Click link for more info and facts about astronomical) astronomical (Click link for more info and facts about astrological) astrological treatise proposing the complex motions of the ((astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior) star s and planetary paths, originally written in (A native or inhabitant of Greece) Greek as Hè Megalè Syntaxis by (An ancient dynasty of Macedonian kings who ruled Egypt from 323 BC to 30 BC; founded by Ptolemy I and ended with Cleopatra) Ptolemy of (The chief port of Egypt; located on the western edge of the Nile delta on the Mediterranean Sea; founded by Alexander the Great; the capital of ancient Egypt) Alexandria (A republic in northeastern Africa known as the United Arab Republic until 1971; site of an ancient civilization that flourished from 2600 to 30 BC) Egypt . The date of Almagest has recently been more precisely established. Ptolemy set up a public inscription at

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