Gerard of Cremona (Italian: Gerardo da Cremona; Latin: Gerardus Cremonensis) (c. 1114–1187) was an Italian translator of Arabic scientific works found in the abandoned Arab libraries of Toledo, Spain.
He was one of the most important scholars among the Toledo School of Translators who invigorated medieval Europe in the twelfth century by transmitting ancient Arabic, Greek and Jewish knowledge in astronomy, medicine and other sciences, and making them available to every literate person in Europe. One of his most famous translations is of Ptolemy's Almagest from Arabic texts found in Toledo. Gerard has been mistakenly credited as the translator of Avicenna's Canon of Medicine (see below).
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