THE PRINCIPAL SOURCES OF ANCIENT SCIENCE IN
WESTERN CHRISTENDOM BETWEEN A.D. 500 AND A.D. 1300
  (2) Arabic Sources from c. 1000
 
Author
Work
Latin translator and
language of original of
translation
Place and date of
Latin translation
Jabir in Hayyan corpus 

(written 9th-10th centuries)

Various chemical works from Arabic 12th and 13th centuries 
Al-Khwarizmi 

(9th century)

Liber Ysagogarum Alchoismi (arithmetic) 

Astronomical tables 

(trigonometry) 

Algebra

Adelard of Bath from Arabic 

Adelard of Bath from Arabic 

Robert of Chester from Arabic 

early 12th century 

1126 

Segovia 1145 

Alkindi 

(d.c. 873)

De Aspectibus; De Umbris et de Diversitate 

Aspectuum

Gerard of Cremona from Arabic Toledo 

12th Century

Thabit ibn Qurra 

(d.901)

Liber Charastonis (on the Roman balance) Gerard of Cremona from Arabic Toledo 

12th Century

Rhazes 

(d.c. 924) 

De Aluminibus et Salibus (chemical work) 

Liber Continens (medical encyclopaedia) 

Liber Almansoris (medical compilation based on Greek sources)

Gerard of Cremona from Arabic 

Moses Farachi from Arabic 
 
 

Gerard of Cremona from Arabic 

Toledo 

12th century 

Sicily 1279 
 
 

Toledo 

12th century 

Alfarabi 

(d. 950)

Distinctio super Librum 

Aristotelis de Naturali Auditu

Gerard of Cremona from Arabic Toledo 

12th century

Hali Abbas 

(d. 994)

Part of Liber Regalis 

(medical encyclopedia) 

Liber Regalis

Constantine the African (d. 1087) and John the Saracen from Arabic 

Stephen of Antioch from Arabic

South Italy 

11th century 
 
 

c. 1127

pseudo-Aristotle  De Proprietatibus Elementorum (Arabic work on geology) Gerard of Cremona from Arabic Toledo 

12th century 

Alhazen 

(c. 965-1039)

Opticae Thesaurus  from Arabic end of 12th century
Avicenna 

(980-1037) 

Physical and philosophical part of Kitab al-Shifa (commentary on Aristotle) 

De Mineralibus (geological and alchemical part of Kitab al-Shifa

Canon (medical encyclopedia)

Dominicus Gundissalinus and John of Seville, abbreviated from Arabic 
 
 
 
 

Alfred of Sareshel from Arabic 
 
 
 
 

Gerard of Cremona from Arabic

Toledo 

12th century 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Spain c. 1200 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Toledo 

12th century

Alpetragius 

(12th century) 

Liber Astronomiae (Aristotelian concentric system) Michael Scot from Arabic  Toledo 1217 
Averroës (1126-98)  Commentaries on Physica, De Caelo et Mundo, De Anima and other works of Aristotle Michael Scot from Arabic early 13th century
Leonardo Fibonacci of Pisa Liber Abaci (first complete account of Hindu numerals) using Arabic knowledge 1202