Avicenna

[av-uh-sen-uh]

noun

a.d. 980–1037, Islamic physician and philosopher, born in Persia.

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For notes on Avicenna's arithmetic, see Woepcke, Propagation, p. 502.
The Hindu-Arabic Numerals
David Eugene Smith
Then there is a commentary on the "Cantica of Avicenna," and a tractate on the "Theriac."
Old-Time Makers of Medicine
James J. Walsh
Rhazes, Haly-Abbas, and Avicenna were universally invoked and explained.
An Epitome of the History of Medicine
Roswell Park
Some, like Avicenna, went through the whole circle of the sciences.
Christianity and Modern Thought
Various
Avicenna: A physician, born in Bokhara, and died at Ispahan, 1037.
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri

British Dictionary definitions for avicenna

Avicenna

noun

Arabic name ibn-Sina. 980–1037, Arab philosopher and physician whose philosophical writings, which combined Aristotelianism with neo-Platonist ideas, greatly influenced scholasticism, and whose medical work Qanun was the greatest single influence on medieval medicine

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