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Book/Printed Material Flowers of Avicenna. Flores Avicenne

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Title

  • Flowers of Avicenna.

Other Title

  • Flores Avicenne

Summary

  • Abū 'Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn 'Abd Allāh ibn Sīnā (980--1037), commonly known as Avicenna, was born at Afshaneh, near Bukhara in Persia (present-day Uzbekistan). By the age of 10, he was well versed in the study of the Qurʼan and various sciences. He was the most famous and influential of the many Islamic scholars, scientists, and philosophers of the medieval world. He was foremost a physician but was also an astronomer, chemist, geologist, psychologist, philosopher, logician, mathematician, physicist, and poet. A prolific writer in all of these fields, he captured the knowledge of the time in well organized texts. Avicenna's writings influenced the scholarship of medicine in the West into the 17th century. Avicenna's al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb (The canon of medicine) contains a complete system of medicine based on the traditions of the ancient Greek scholars. Floris Avicenne is a Latin translation of Avicenna's masterpiece, first published in 1508 by the Renaissance editor of scientific translations Michael de Capella.

Names

  • Avicenna, 980-1037 Author.
  • Capella, Michael de, flourished 1500-1538 Editor.

Created / Published

  • Rome : Printed by Claude Davost alias de Troys, for Bartholomeus Trot, 1508.

Headings

  • -  Uzbekistan
  • -  990 to 1508
  • -  Medicine, Arab

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 346 pages, 17 centimeters.
  • -  Original resource at: Qatar National Library.
  • -  Content in Latin.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021666138

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Avicenna, 980-1037 Author, and Michael De Capella. Flowers of Avicenna. Rome: Printed by Claude Davost alias de Troys, for Bartholomeus Trot, 1508. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666138/.

APA citation style:

Avicenna, 9. A. & Capella, M. D. (1508) Flowers of Avicenna. Rome: Printed by Claude Davost alias de Troys, for Bartholomeus Trot. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666138/.

MLA citation style:

Avicenna, 980-1037 Author, and Michael De Capella. Flowers of Avicenna. Rome: Printed by Claude Davost alias de Troys, for Bartholomeus Trot, 1508. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021666138/>.