Avicenna

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1. Avicenna - Noun

2. Avicenna - Proper noun

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Persian physician and influential philosopher; his interpretation of Aristotle influenced St. Thomas Aquinas; writings on medicine were important for almost 500 years (980-1037)

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According to his autobiography, Avicenna had memorised the entire Quran by the age of 10. citation He learned Indian arithmetic from an Indian greengrocer,ءMahmoud Massahi Khorasani Sharaf, Islamic Great Encyclopedia,vol.1. Source: Internet

Albertus critically compared these to the writings of Aristotle and Avicenna, where they concerned the transmutation of metals. Source: Internet

Another historic thought experiment was Avicenna 's " Floating Man " thought experiment in the 11th century. Source: Internet

Arabic scholar Ibn al-Nafis had disputed aspects of Galen's views, providing a model that seems to imply a form of pulmonary circulation in his Commentary on Anatomy in Avicenna 's Canon (1242). Source: Internet

Avicenna criticized Aristotelian induction, arguing that "it does not lead to the absolute, universal, and certain premises that it purports to provide." Source: Internet

Averroes' position that the most logically valid proof should be physical rather than metaphysical (because then metaphysics would be proving itself) was in conscious opposition to the position of Avicenna. Source: Internet

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