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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.
Contributor:
Aristotle.
Alfred, of Sareshel
Holmyard, Eric John, 1891-1959.
Mandeville, Desmond Christopher.
Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
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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