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    Avicenna was a highly influential Persian polymath and scholar from the Islamic Golden Age. He is regarded as one of the most significant thinkers of that time. Some of his most famous works include The Book of Healing, a philosophical and scientific encyclopedia, and The Canon of Medicine, a medical encyclopedia that became a standard medical text in medieval universities for several centuries. Avicenna wrote extensively in many subjects, including philosophy, medicine, astronomy, alchemy, geography, geology, psychology, Islamic theology, logic, mathematics, physics and poetry.

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    Avicenna was a highly influential Persian polymath and scholar from the Islamic Golden Age. He is regarded as one of the most significant thinkers of that time. Some of his most famous works include The Book of Healing, a philosophical and scientific encyclopedia, and The Canon of Medicine, a medical encyclopedia that became a standard medical text in medieval universities for several centuries. Avicenna wrote extensively in many subjects, including philosophy, medicine, astronomy, alchemy, geography, geology, psychology, Islamic theology, logic, mathematics, physics and poetry.

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    Avicenna (/vsn/; Latinized form of Ibn-Sn, full name Ab Al al-usayn ibn Abd

    Allh ibn Al-asan ibn Ali ibn Sn[6] ; c.980 June


    1037) was a Persian polymath who is regarded as one of the most significant thinkers and
    writers of the Islamic Golden Age.[7]
    Of the 450 works he is known to have written, around 240 have survived, including 150
    on philosophy and 40 on medicine.[8]
    His most famous works are The Book of Healing a philosophical and scientific encyclopedia,
    and The Canon of Medicine amedical encyclopedia[9][10][11] which became a standard
    medical text at many medieval universities[12] and remained in use as late as 1650.[13] In 1973,
    Avicenna's Canon Of Medicine was reprinted in New York.[14]
    Besides philosophy and medicine, Avicenna's corpus includes writings
    on astronomy, alchemy, geography and geology, psychology,Islamic
    theology, logic, mathematics, physics and poetry.[15]

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