Arabic in the Sciences
The Book of Agriculture
كتاب الفلاحة
Ibn al-'Awwam's Book of Agriculture had no medieval Latin version; Spain translated it into Spanish in 1802 to educate farmers – six centuries after it was written.
- Author
- Ibn al-'Awwam (late 12th century)
- Field
- Codes, geography, farming and machines
- Arabic title
- كتابُ الفِلاحة
- Latin title
- None in the Middle Ages; Spanish: Libro de agricultura (Madrid 1802); French: Le livre de l'agriculture (Paris 1864–67)
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