Ibn Sina, better known as Avicenna, a man of Persian origin, was a. From Wordnik.com. [The Faith of Islam] Reference
Prince, the rival, indeed, of Galen, was the Persian Ibn Sina, better known as Avicenna, one of the greatest names in the history of medicine. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913] Reference
Again Arabs such as Avicenna and Abū'l-Barakāt had used equivalent Arabic termi - nology to express the same idea, and thirteenth-century. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
At the age of twenty-two Avicenna lost his father. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
Gradually the teachings of Avicenna, Suhrawardī, and. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Scotus, who used Avicenna as the “point of departure”. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
When the storm had passed Avicenna returned with the amir to. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
Avicenna himself was at this season stricken down by a severe illness. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
But amid his restless study Avicenna never forgot his love of enjoyment. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
Avicenna says that bad water may be corrected by the addition of vinegar. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century] Reference
Nursing Department received top honors, indicated by figurine of Avicenna. From Wordnik.com. [Open Letter to Columbia University Community: Accept President Ahmadinejad's Invitation-If I Can Do it So Can You] Reference
Avicenna, however, remained hidden for forty days in a sheik's house, till. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
S. van der Bergh (London, 1954), pp. 345-55; Avicenna, Psychol - ogy, trans. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Avicenna was born near Bukhara in 370 (980) in a family devoted to learning. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
"Yea, and my Avicenna too, howbeit the Moors are not so well regarded as formerly.". From Wordnik.com. [In the Garden of Iden] Reference
In the seventh (thirteenth) century the philosophy of Avicenna was revived by Khwājah. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Avicenna in East and West is one of the factors that indicate the parting of ways between Islamic and. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Ishārāt wa 'l-tanbīhāt (Book of Directives and Remarks) of Avicenna, and criticizing it thoroughly. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Avicenna, the great Arab physician (980-1037) said, Lemon Balm "causeth the mind and heart to be merry.". From Wordnik.com. [Brigitte Mars: Lemon Balm: A Friend for the Bees] Reference
Shut up your Galen, burn your Hippocrates, and put Avicenna in a corner: the father of them all is here in person. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan] Reference
The commentary of Albertus Magnus, based upon that of Avicenna, did much to impose Aristotle upon the learned world. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
Caspian, he met with a friend, who bought near his own house a dwelling in which Avicenna lectured on logic and astronomy. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
But the pay was small, and Avicenna wandered from place to place through the districts of Nishapur and Merv to the borders of. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
Cardanus gets a story from Avicenna, of a certain man bit by a serpent, who recovered of his bite, the snake dying therefrom. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860] Reference
It remained for the great genius of Avicenna to give them their most complete elaboration and elucidation in a systematic whole. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Avicenna objected to this that the mercury was liable to speedily pass into the ear so deeply as to be beyond the reach of the lead. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century] Reference
Chthon, Geo, ... as a child of "multiversal"'natura naturans natura naturata' (Avicenna), that is, of creative, creating and created. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Diary: Venezuela: The Principle of Hope Against Global United States Military Bases] Reference
To this end he first summarized the views of the Peripatetics, especially Avicenna who was the foremost among them, in a work called The. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Avicenna, many of which probably varied little, except in being commissioned by a different patron and having a different form or extent. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
Damascenus, Jacobus Alucindi, Avicenna and Averroës; the Salernian writers, quoted generally as Salernitani and specifically Constantino. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century] Reference
When the library was destroyed by fire not long after, the enemies of Avicenna accused him of burning it, in order for ever to conceal the sources of his knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
On the death of the amir Avicenna ceased to be vizier, and hid himself in the house of an apothecary, where, with intense assiduity, he continued the composition of his works. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
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