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Arabic in the Sciences

Scientific books in Arabic, and what they did to Europe's sciences and universities.

45 cards
al-Jabr wa-l-Muqābala (Algebra) On Indian Reckoning Elements of Astronomy

Why these cards?

A selection, not a full list, of what Europe took from Arabic: books whose translation and influence historians of science document – each card says what the book did once translated.

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al-Ḥāwī, the Continens
al-Razi (Rhazes); compiled posthumously from his notes
The Canon of Medicine
Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
Questions on Medicine
Hunayn ibn Ishaq (Johannitius)
al-Manṣūrī, for al-Manṣūr
Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi (Rhazes)
On Smallpox and Measles
al-Razi (Rhazes)
The Complete Art of Medicine
'Ali ibn al-'Abbas al-Majusi (Haly Abbas)
al-Taṣrīf: On Surgery
Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi (Albucasis)
Taqwīm al-Ṣiḥḥa, the Tables of Health
Ibn Butlan
al-Kulliyyāt, the Colliget
Ibn Rushd (Averroes)
Commentary on the Anatomy of the Canon
Ibn al-Nafis
Ten Treatises on the Eye
Hunayn ibn Ishaq (Johannitius)
Provisions for the Traveller
Ibn al-Jazzar of Kairouan
The Latin Books of "Mesue"
An unknown European author ("Pseudo-Mesue")
Al-Murshid (The Guide)
Abu Bakr al-Razi (Rhazes)
The Canon in Arabic Type, Rome 1593
Ibn Sina (Avicenna)