Avicennain a sentence
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Avicenna is probably the most influential philosopher of the Islamic tradition.
Avicenna = Islamic philosopher-scientists whose interpretation of Aristotle influenced Thomas Aquinas (980-1037)
- Eventually, we discovered that the best of them was a volume by one Avicenna, a Musalman doctor who, many years since, had set down all his learning in a vast canon.† (source)
- I am reading Avicenna now, or Ibn Sin5, as I have correctly learned to call him.† (source)
- It was her precious final volume from Avicenna's Canon of Medicine.† (source)
- "Those alchemists," he resumed, "Avicenna, Bacon, Lully, Paracelsus, were the real and only savants of their time.† (source)
- Here I saw both Socrates and Plato, who before the others stand nearest to him; Democritus, who ascribes the world to chance; Diogenes, Anaxagoras, and Thales, Empedocles, Heraclitus, and Zeno; and I saw the good collector of the qualities, Dioscorides, I mean; and I saw Orpheus, Tully, and Linus, and moral Seneca, Euclid the geometer, and Ptolemy, Hippocrates, Avicenna, Galen, and Averrhoes, who made the great comment.† (source)