Islamic Alchemy - Alchemists of the Islamic Golden Age, J Bir Ibn Hayy N, Avicenna, Muhammad Ibn Zakariya Al-Razi, Al-Farabi (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 47. Chapters: Alchemists of the Islamic Golden Age, J bir ibn Hayy n, Avicenna, Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi, Al-Farabi, Ab Ray n al-B r n, Alchemy and chemistry in medieval Islam, Attar of Nishapur, Ziryab, Al-Khazini, Ja'far al-Sadiq, Abbas Ibn Firnas, Ibn al-Nadim, Ibn Wahshiyya, Ibn al-Baitar, Ahmad ibn Yahya al-Baladhuri, Artephius, Maslamah Ibn Ahmad al-Majriti, Muhammed ibn Umail al-Tamimi, Calid, Ibn Sahl, Al-Tughrai, Najm al-D n al-Qazw n al-K tib, Abu al-Salt, Al-Jaldaki, Ibn al-Wafid, Masihi Gorgani, Ibn Rassam, Al-Khwarizmi al-Khati, Ahmad Ibn Imad ul-din, Abu Mansur Muwaffaq, Harbi al-Himyari, Abul Hasan ibn Musa ibn Arfa Ra'a, Al-Nabarawi, Al-Simawi. Excerpt: Ab Al al- usayn ibn Abd All h ibn S n (Persian Pur Sina /'pu r si n / son of Sina) (c. 980, Afshana near Bukhara- 1037, Hamadan, Iran), commonly known as Ibn S n or by his Latinized name Avicenna, was a Persian polymath. Ibn S n studied medicine under a physician named Koushyar. He wrote almost 450 treatises on a wide range of subjects, of which around 240 have survived. In particular, 150 of his surviving treatises concentrate on philosophy and 40 of them concentrate on medicine. His most famous works are The Book of Healing, a vast philosophical and scientific encyclopaedia, and The Canon of Medicine, which was a standard medical text at many medieval universities. The Canon of Medicine was used as a text-book in the universities of Montpellier and Louvain as late as 1650. Ibn S n 's Canon of Medicine provides a complete system of medicine according to the principles of Galen (and Hippocrates). He was also an astronomer, chemist, geologist, Hafiz, Islamic psychologist, Islamic scholar, Islamic theologian, logician, mathematician, Maktab teacher, physicist, poet, and scientist. He is regarded as the most famous and influential polymath of...