Arabic in the Sciences
The Canon of Medicine
القانون
Ibn Sina's Canon of Medicine, translated by Gerard of Cremona, stood beside Hippocrates and Galen in Europe's universities, with some sixty Latin editions between 1500 and 1674.
- Author
- Ibn Sina (Avicenna) (d. 1037)
- Field
- Medicine
- Arabic title
- القانونُ في الطبّ
- Latin title
- Canon medicinae (Liber canonis)
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