Adelard of Bath

Adelard of Bath was a 12th-century English natural philosopher. Quotes From my Arab teachers I have learnt one thing, to have reason as my guide, while you are dazzled by the show of authority and led by a halter. For what is authority to be called, but a halter? As the brute beasts, indeed, are led by the halter, and have no idea by what they are led or why, but only follow the rope that holds them, so also the authority of writers leads not a few of you into danger, tied and bound by brutish credulity. Adelard of Bath, Dodi Ve-Nechdi , ed. and trans. H. Gollancz, Oxford University Press, London, 1920, pp. 98–99. Adapted by the author. quoted in Euclid and Jesus, How and why the church changed mathematics and Christianity across two religious wars C. K. Raju The present generation has this ingrained weakness, that it thinks that nothing discovered by the moderns is worthy to be received—the result of this is that if I wanted to publish anything of my own invention I should attribute it to someone else, and say, “Someone else said this, not I.” Therefore (that I may not wholly be robbed of a hearing) it was a certain great man that discovered all my ideas, not I. quoted in C. K. Raju, Cultural Foundations of Mathematics, Vol. 10, Pt. 4: The Nature of Mathematical Proof and the Transmission of the Calculus from India to Europe (India: Pearson Longman, 2007) External links Category:1080s births Category:1150s deaths Category:12th-century astrologers Category:12th-century astronomers Category:12th-century English mathematicians Category:12th-century English philosophers Category:12th-century English scientists Category:12th-century English writers Category:12th-century Roman Catholics Category:12th-century translators Category:12th-century writers in Latin Category:Arabic–Latin translators Category:Catholic philosophers Category:English male non-fiction writers Category:English Roman Catholic writers Category:English translators Category:Medieval Arabists Category:Medieval English astrologers Category:Medieval English astronomers Category:Medieval European astronomy Category:Medieval orientalists Category:People from Bath, Somerset Category:Scholastic philosophers