| LC control no. | n 86026019 |
|---|---|
| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Gherardo, da Cremona, 1113 or 1114-1187 |
| Variant(s) | Gérard, de Crémone, 1113 or 1114-1187 Gerard, of Cremona, 1113 or 1114-1187 Gerardo, da Cremona, 1113 or 1114-1187 Gerardus, Cremonensis, 1113 or 1114-1187 Gerardus Cremonensis, 1113 or 14-1187 Gherardo, da Cremona, 1113 or 14-1187 |
| Associated place | Toledo, Spain |
| Located | Lombardy, Italy |
| Birth date | [1113,1114] |
| Death date | 1187 |
| Place of birth | Cremona, Italy |
| Field of activity | Philosophy Science |
| Profession or occupation | Translator |
| Found in | Sacro Bosco, J. de. Iohannis de Sacrobusto, Anglici, uiri clarissimi, Spera mundi, 1478 (name not given) BLC (Gerardus, Cremonensis, the elder; confuses his works with those of the younger) BN (Gérard de Crémone, l'aîné) NUC pre-1956 (Gerardus Cremonensis, 1113 or 14-1187) LC data base, 8-27-87 (hdg.: Gerardus, Cremonensis, 1113 or 14-1187) Encic. italiana (Gherardo da Cremona; famous translator of Arabic works into Latin; b. Cremona; studied philosophy and science there; moved to Toledo; finished translation of Ptolemy's Almagest in 1175; lists his works and states he is not the author of Theorica planetarum, which is by a 13th cent. person of that name [Gherardo, da Sabbionetta, 13th cent.]; d. in 1187 at age of 73) Tiraboschi: index (Gherardo, detto da Cremona) DSB (Gerard of Cremona; b. Cremona, Italy, 1114?; d. Toledo, Spain, 1187) Gerardo da Cremona, 1992: p. 3 (b. 1114, Cremona; d. 1187, probably in Toledo) Chirurgia, 2012: page 134 (Gerard of Cremona; Gerardus Cemonensis; from Lombardy, lived from 1114-1187; in the 1140s went to Toledo where he translated Greek and Arabic texts on philosophy, medicine, physics, alchemy, mathematics, astronomy, astrology, and Arabic commentaries on classical literature) |
| Associated language | lat |
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