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Renaissance magi merely continued this Hermetic tradition begun by Herman, Robert and Hugh. Herman shares technical terminology with Hugh and a penchant for evocation of the
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European language. Robert of Ketton was its principal translator, according to most sources (including the
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into Latin. Different members of the team appear to have concentrated on different works, and Herman is credited as the main translator of two of them:
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Burnett, Charles S. F. (1981). "Hermann of
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Burnett, Charles S. F. (1976). "The Legend of the Three Hermes and Abū Ma'shar's Kitāb al-Ulūf in the Latin Middle Ages".
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