Adelard

At the same time, political, cultural, and personal ties ran deep, and so it was not surprising that Adelard could pursue higher education in Tours and that many leading officials and courtiers, like Bishop John, hailed from the European mainland.

'The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization' 2009

The Pipe Rolls, or royal accounts, later list Adelard as the beneficiary of a pension from the revenues of Whiltshire, in southwest England.

'The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization' 2009

In 1086, as a young child, Adelard had seen his native West Country town of Bath, including its once-proud abbey of black-robed monks, almost burned to the ground during an uprising against the heir to the throne, William the Red.

'The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization' 2009

In "The House of Wisdom," he shapes his narrative around the travels of the little-known but extraordinary Adelard of Bath, an English monk who traveled to the East in the early 12th century and learned Arabic well enough to translate mathematical treatises into English.

The Islamic Enlightenment Eric Ormsby 2009

Seven years before the earthquake that shook the moral foundations of Crusader Antioch, Adelard surveyed the world around him and pronounced it rotten.

The Islamic Enlightenment Eric Ormsby 2009

Chapter Two: The Earth is like a Wheel Seven years before the earthquake that shook the moral foundations of Crusader Antioch, Adelard surveyed the world around him and pronounced it rotten.

'The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization' 2009

Still, young Adelard saw little of value in the contemporary world, and he despaired at the state of Western learning in particular.

'The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization' 2009

Indeed, his own example of Adelard of Bath makes this plain.

The Islamic Enlightenment Eric Ormsby 2009

Although absorbed, assimilated and even added to by the likes of Adelard of Bath (1122CE) and especially the extensive translation of the original Greek and Arabic texts into Latin of Robert Grosseteste (1230CE), and his resulting important commentaries and treatises like the astronomic, De sphere.

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Although absorbed, assimilated and even added to by the likes of Adelard of Bath (1122CE) and especially the extensive translation of the original Greek and Arabic texts into Latin of Robert Grosseteste (1230CE), and his resulting important commentaries and treatises like the astronomic, De sphere.

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