"In 1120, Adelhard of Bath obtained in Spain a copy of Euclid's Elements and translated... into Latin. Translations from the Arabic of other Greek works, especially... Aristotle, soon followed. About 1186 Gherardo of Cremona made another translation of the Elements and... in 1260, Giovanni Campano reproduced Adelhard's translation under his own name and obtained... wide celebrity. The fruit of these translations soon followed. In 1220, Leonardo of Pisa... published... Practica Geometriae which though it deals with the calculation of areas and numerical ratios of spaces, is founded on Euclid and Archimedes and Ptolemy, and contains some trigonometry and conics."

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