Rudolf of Bruges

Rudolf (Rudolph) of Bruges was a Flemish translator from Arabic into Latin active in the twelfth century who worked at the Toledo School of Translators.[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] that he dedicated to his colleague at the Toledo School, John of Seville.

He also produced commentary on Ptolemy's Planisphaerium by the same author.[5]

References

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