The Toledo translators

Toledo hands the Greek and Arabic learning back to the Latin West; Gerard of Cremona goes for the Almagest and stays to translate seventy-odd books.

In plain words

At Toledo the Greek and Arabic learning comes back into Latin; Gerard of Cremona goes for Ptolemy's astronomy and stays to translate some seventy books. It is a release, though it brings back an Aristotle who will soon become an authority no one checks.

The mechanism

RELEASE — and the corpus that returns includes the Aristotle that will shortly become an authority nobody checks

How it was checked

• EvidenceT5 INDEPENDENT SECULAR; Status: COMMITTED; a release
• Letter eraTHE CAPTURE 313 to 1302
• SourcesSECULAR RECORD