Daily Medieval

Despite the potentially reputation-damaging error in calculation made by al-Farghani in the case of a canal, he is better known for other a...

Some of the works translated at Toledo by our old friend Gerard of Cremona were the Book of Definitions  and the Book of Elements  into Lat...

In the beginning of the 12th century, European science lagged behind Arabic scholarship, in many ways because early Greek texts had not made...

Gerard of Cremona (1114-1187CE) was an important translator of Arabic texts into Latin. Born in Cremona in northern Italy, he went to Toledo...