Adelard of Bath (c. 1080-c. 1152 C.E.) was a pioneer in introducing Arabic science into the Latin curriculum of the liberal arts. He would have become acquainted with Arabic in his travels in the Crusader Principality of Antioch and in Norman Sicily, but his translations appear to have been made in his native Bath. His original works show a mastery of Classical Latin culture, but one of these, The questions on natural science, claims to be based on the studia Arabum ("studies of the Arabs"), which he commends