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title: AVICENNA

subject date: 2003-01-10

caption: AVICENNA (Abu Ali al-Husayn Ibn Sina, 22 August 980 – 21 June 1037), Persian physician, philosopher, mathematician, logician and physicist, author of important works in Arabic, including the famous ''Canon of Medicine'', a sort of encyclopedia of medical-surgical knowledge of the time that was translated into Latin by Gerard of Cremona and was adopted as the main text in medical faculties until the 16th century. He also studied natural sciences and mathematics. His philosophy made a fundamental contribution to the spread of Aristotelianism in the West. Portrait in oval with book, ''ex Codice antiquo Galeni''. Unspecified location, unspecified

category: HIS

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copyright status: Copyrighted Work

country: Iran

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continent: Asia

image century : XVI

image epoch: Cinquecento

licence: RM

subject century: X - XI

subject epoch: Medioevo

technique: Incisione

id: 16798

file name: FSNgilardi_51231.jpg

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AvicennamedicinephilosophyArabPersiaportraitscientistphilosopherdoctorMiddle EastMiddle Ages