Mind-Benders of Islamic History
A medical textbook that ruled European universities for 600 years
Ibn Sina (980–1037), known in Latin as Avicenna, was a physician and philosopher traditionally said to have qualified as a practicing doctor by about eighteen and to have written some 450 works. His Canon of Medicine, completed around 1025, was still a standard reference in European universities into the mid-1600s — roughly six centuries after he wrote it.
How we know
Ibn Sina/Avicenna b. 980 (near Bukhara) – d. 1037 (Hamadan); Canon of Medicine completed c. 1025; used in European universities (Padua, Bologna, Montpellier, Leuven) into the mid-1600s (c. 1650, some Italian schools to c. 1674) → ~600-625 yr span; ~450 works traditionally attributed (~240 survive).
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