... translated version in western world was done by Gerard of Cremona. In the Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, Thomas Hockey said that he studied Arabic and devoted himself to translating into Latin some of the Arabic translations of Greek treatises, Arabic commentaries on them, and original Arabic works dealing with astronomy, mathematics, philosophy, medicine, and other sciences" ( ... , based on the fact that Campanus had a deep understanding of Euclid's Element, his later work Theorica Planetarum is also a masterpiece. He not only did a good job as a translator and a good mathem...

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