# Adelard of Bath

- id: adelard-of-bath
- dates: c. 1080–1152
- roles: translator

England's first Arabist, who traveled the Norman Mediterranean for seven years and came home urging readers to follow reason rather than authority. His Latin Euclid of c. 1120 and his 1126 version of al-Khwarizmi's tables opened Arabic mathematics to the Latin schools.

## Crossings

- c. 1120: Elements into Latin (translator) [attested]
- 1126: Brahmasphutasiddhanta into Latin (translator) [probable]

## Sources

- Mercier, Raymond (1987). Astronomical Tables in the Twelfth Century.
- Murdoch, John E. (1971). Euclid: Transmission of the Elements.