The Importance of Greek Arabic Translations

Philosophy comes into this culture on the back of other disciplines that we would maybe broadly consider a scientific sort of things like medicine and astronomy. It's in fact an important feature of the Arabic and to Latin translation movements as a whole that philosophy is translated rather late. There are gaps in their sciences, among these scientists they have. They know the name of Ptolemy, but don't have text by PtoleMY. And also then if you move on to Spain in Analucia, in the first half of the 12th century, a major translator like John of Seville translates many astrological treatises. Others translate treatises on magic or on alchemy