Rudolf of Bruges

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Rudolf (Rudolph) of Bruges was a Flemish translator from Arabic into Latin active in the twelfth century^[1]. He was a pupil of Hermann of Carinthia^[2][3]. He was an astronomer, and translated into Latin as Liber de compositione astrolabii a major work of Islamic science on the astrolabe, by Maslamah Ibn Ahmad al-Majriti, ^[4], as well as a commentary on Ptolemy's Planisphaerium by the same author.^[5]

[edit] References

• Richard Lorch, The Treatise on the Astrolabe by Rudolph of Bruges, in Between Demonstration and Imagination. Essays in the History of Science and Philosophy Presented to John D. North; edited by L. Nauta and A. Vanderjagt (1999)

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Arzobispo Raimundo de Toledo Escuela de Traductores [1130-1187]
2. ^ [1].
3. ^ [2] looks at the network of translators.
4. ^ Ibid., p.25.
5. ^ History of Islamic Science - The time of abu-l-wafa