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980 CE–1037 CE

Avicenna (Ibn Sina)

Science · Personas científicas · Medicine · Filosofía natural

A Persian physician and philosopher whose works circulated widely in Arabic and Latin. This entry focuses on his intellectual and medical career, not a retrospective assessment of all premodern medicine.

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