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Avicennae De congelatione et conglutinatione lapidum : being sections of the Kitâb al-shifâ' / the Latin and Arabic texts, edited with an English translation of the latter and with critical notes by E.J. Holmyard and D.C. Mandeville.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Avicenna, 980-1037.
- Language:
- Arabic
- English
- French
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Petrology.
- Mineralogy.
- Mountains.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 86 pages ; 25 cm
- Other Title:
- Kitâb al-shifâ'.
- Place of Publication:
- Paris : P. Guethner, 1927.
- Notes:
- The "De mineralibus," appended, in medieval Arabic-Latin versions, to the fourth book of the Meteorologica of Aristotle. It is "partly a direct translation and partly a résumé" of passages in Avicenna's Kitâb al-shifâ' (Book of the remedy), made by Alfred of Sareshel. cf. Introd.
- "Select bibliography": pages [57]-58.
- OCLC:
- 873459
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