Robert Of Chester

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Robert of Chester was an English arabist who flourished around 1150. He translated several historically important books from Arabic to Latin, by authors such as Abu Musa Jabir Ibn Hayyan and Al-Khwarizmi including: *"Liber algebrae et almucabala" Al-Khwārizmī's book about algebra translated in 1145 * "Liber de compositione alchimiae" a book about alchemy translated in 1144 In the 1140s Robert worked in Spain, … Wikipedia
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