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Avicenna : leading physician and philosopher-scientist of the Islamic Golden Age / Bridget Lim and Aisha Khan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lim, Bridget, author.
- Khan, Aisha, author.
- Series:
- Physicians, scientists, and mathematicians of the Islamic world.
- Physicians, Scientists, and Mathematicians of the Islamic World
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Avicenna, 980-1037--Juvenile literature.
- Avicenna.
- Muslim philosophers--Juvenile literature.
- Muslim philosophers.
- Scientists--Asia, Central--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Scientists.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (114 pages).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Rosen Publishing, 2017.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Known as the "prince of physicians," Avicenna made enormous contributions to the fields of medicine, natural history, metaphysics, and religion. His use of Aristotelian logic and his work on the concept of "being" opened the door for a rationalist study of religion, influencing the later Christian philosophers Aquinas, Descartes, and Kant. Avicenna's monumental Canon of Medicine is regarded as possibly the greatest medical work ever. Available in a Latin translation in Europe one hundred years after his death, it continued to be used there for the next six centuries.
- Contents:
- The Golden Age of Islam
- Avicenna's early life
- On the prince's court
- Prince of physicians
- A short life with width
- Chief of the wise.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-5081-7135-1
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