Rudolf of Bruges

Rudolf (Rudolph) of Bruges was a Flemish translator from Arabic into Latin active in the twelfth century [ [http://faculty.washington.edu/petersen/alfonso/esctra12.htm Arzobispo Raimundo de Toledo Escuela de Traductores [1130-1187 ] ] . He was a pupil of Hermann of Carinthia [ [http://www.medievalhistory.net/islamica.htm] .] [ [http://libro.uca.edu/ics/ics8.htm] looks at the network of translators.] . 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, [Ibid., p.25.] , as well as a commentary on Ptolemy's "Planisphaerium" by the same author. [ [http://www.levity.com/alchemy/islam16.html History of Islamic Science - The time of abu-l-wafa ] ]

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*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)

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