About Rudolf of Bruges
Rudolf of Bruges was an astronomer, translator, astrologer and canon.
Rudolf (Rudolph) of Bruges was a Flemish translator from Arabic into Latin active in the twelfth century who worked at the Toledo School of Translators.
He was a pupil of Hermann of Carinthia. He was an astronomer, and translated into Latin as Liber de compositione astrolabii, a major work of Islamic science on the astrolabe by Maslamah Ibn Ahmad al-Majriti, that he dedicated to his colleague at the Toledo School, John of Seville.
He also produced commentary on Ptolemy's Planisphaerium by the same author.
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12th-century Flemish translator
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