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THE PRINCIPAL SOURCES OF ANCIENT SCIENCE INWESTERN CHRISTENDOM BETWEEN A.D. 500 AND A.D. 1300Compiled by Jerry BieberSanta Fe Community College, Gainesville, FL
(1) Early Greek and Latin Sources
 
AuthorWorkLatin translator andlanguage of original of translationPlace and date of Latin translation
Plato(428-347 B.C.)
Timaeus
(first 53chapters)Calcidius from Greek4th centuryAristotle(384-22 B.C.)Some logical works(
logica vetus
)Boethius from GreekItaly6th centuryDioscorides(1st century A.D.)
Materia Medica
from Greekby 6th centuryAnon.
 Physiologus
(2ndcentury A.D.Alexandria)from Greek5th centuryAnon.Various technicalCompositionesfrom Greek sourcesearliest MSS8th centuryLucretius(
c.
95-55 B.C.)
 De Rerum Natura
(knows in excerptsform 9th century; fulltext recovered 1417)..Vitruvius(1st century B.C.)
 De Architectura
(known in 12thcentury)..Seneca(4 B.
c.
- 65 A.D.)
Questiones Naturales
..Pliny(23-79 A.D.)
 Histora Naturalis
..
 
Macrobius(
 fl 
. 395-423)In
Somnium Scipionis
..Martianus Capella(5th century)
Satyricon, sive De Nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii et deSeptem Artibus Liberalibus
..Boethius(480-524)Works on the liberalarts, particularlymathematics andastronomy, andcommentaries on thelogic of Aristotle andPorphyry..Cassiodorus(
c.
490-580)Works on the liberalarts..Isidore of Seville(560-636)
 Etymologiarum siveOriginum
 
 De Natura Rerum
..Bede(673-735)
 De Natura Rerum
 
 De Temporum Ratione
 .. 
(2) Arabic Sources from c. 1000
 
AuthorWorkLatin translator andlanguage of original of translationPlace and date of Latin translation
Jabir in Hayyancorpus(written 9th-10thcenturies)Various chemicalworksfrom Arabic12th and 13th centuriesAl-Khwarizmi(9th century)
 Liber Ysagogarum Alchoismi
(arithmetic)Adelard of Bath from ArabicAdelard of Bath from Arabicearly 12th century1126
 
Astronomical tables(trigonometry)
 Algebra
Robert of Chester fromArabicSegovia 1145Alkindi(d.
c.
873)
 De Aspectibus; DeUmbris et de Diversitate
 
 Aspectuum
Gerard of Cremona fromArabicToledo12th CenturyThabit ibn Qurra(d.901)
 Liber Charastonis
(onthe Roman balance)Gerard of Cremona fromArabicToledo12th CenturyRhazes(d.
c.
924)
 De Aluminibus et Salibus
(chemicalwork)
 Liber Continens
(medicalencyclopaedia)
 Liber Almansoris
(medical compilation based on Greek sources)Gerard of Cremona fromArabicMoses Farachi from ArabicGerard of Cremona fromArabicToledo12th centurySicily 1279Toledo12th centuryAlfarabi(d. 950)
 Distinctio super  Librum
 
 Aristotelis de Naturali Auditu
Gerard of Cremona fromArabicToledo12th centuryHali Abbas(d. 994)
 Part of Liber Regalis
 (medicalencyclopedia)
 Liber Regalis
Constantine the African (d.1087) and John the Saracenfrom ArabicStephen of Antioch fromArabicSouth Italy11th century
c.
1127 pseudo-Aristotle
 De Proprietatibus Elementorum
(Arabicwork on geology)Gerard of Cremona fromArabicToledo12th centuryAlhazen
Opticae Thesaurus
from Arabicend of 12th century
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