Tag Archives: Avicenna

Venus Transits in 1032 and 2012

Posted on September 12, 2022 by Muller

As readers may have noticed, I am a moon watcher. Eclipses of either the sun or the moon had been a sort of passion throughout my life, ever since my late father woke me up at 3 o’clock in the … Continue reading →

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Avicenna’s Systematic Reviews

Posted on June 30, 2012 by Muller

That great medieval polymath and philosopher Ibn Sina (d. 1037), or Avicenna as he is known in the West, might in fact be regarded as father (or inventor) of medical systematic reviews [1], nowadays considered as the highest level of … Continue reading →

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Falsafa

Posted on October 18, 2008 by Muller

The work of Greek philosophers, mainly Aristotle but also few of Plato, had been translated into Arabic very early after the Abbasid revolution in the 8th century and continued down to the 10th century. In fact, these great works of … Continue reading →

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