Adelard of Bath, Conversations with his Nephew

Name: Adelard of Bath, Conversations with his Nephew
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Cambridge Medieval Classics

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Adelard of Bath was one of the most colourful personalities of the Middle Ages. He travelled to the Crusader kingdoms, to Sicily and south Italy, and translated texts on astronomy, astrology and magic from Arabic into Latin. He acquired a lasting reputation as a pioneering mathematician, and he was a gifted teacher. He addressed one of these works, on cosmology and the astrolabe, to the future King Henry II, and it is in the context of the education of the nobility that the three works edited in this book are to be viewed. Adelard meant them to be both entertaining and instructive. They deal with all kinds of topics, from the nature of the soul to the cause of earthquakes, from the effects of music to how to train a hawk. A preface provides the results of research on Adelard's life and work.

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November 2nd, 2006

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Professional & Vocational

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Contributions by Baudouin van den Abeele
Contributions by Italo Ronca
Contributions by Pedro Mantas Espana
Edited by Charles Burnett

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2 Halftones, unspecified

Pages

340

Series

Cambridge Medieval Classics

Dimensions

137x214x19

ISBN-13

9780521397759

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1975952

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