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  • jmclnx1 hour ago
    Unfortunately few people know without the Muslim Scholars after the fall of Rome, little of the ancient texts would have survived.<p>But I wonder, was some meaning lost from Greek|Latin -&gt; Arabic -&gt; Latin ?
    • Beijinger52 minutes ago
      Greek|Latin -&gt; Arabic -&gt; Latin<p>His pupil, the English scholastic Daniel of Morley, recorded one of Gerhard&#x27;s methods[6] in translation: His Mozarabic assistant Ghalib (Latinized Galippus)[7] translated the text orally into medieval Castilian, Gerhard listened and wrote the text down in Latin. In the case of the Almagest, which had been translated from its original language of Ancient Greek first into Syriac, then into Arabic, and which Gerhard translated into Latin via the oral route of Castilian, this long chain of transmission introduced numerous sources of error.
    • canjobear1 hour ago
      &gt; Unfortunately few people know without the Muslim Scholars after the fall of Rome, little of the ancient texts would have survived.<p>I was taught this many times in US schools.
  • wotsdat1 hour ago
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