One monk translated 87 books from Arabic?

In 12th-century Toledo, Gerard of Cremona arrived searching for Ptolemy's Almagest and stayed to translate some 87 Arabic scientific works into Latin. His translations became a main pipeline carrying astronomy, mathematics, medicine and philosophy from the Islamic world into Europe.

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