Canon. De viribus cordis.

Canon. De viribus cordis.

Avicenna, the Prince of Physicians, was one of the most precocious and towering personalities of the Islamic world. Reciting the Koran by heart at age ten, he was appointed physician to the Emir of Bokhara at age seventeen. His great Canon was a compendium of all the Greek and Muslim medical knowledge of his time; it combined the teachings of Galen, Hippocrates, and Aristotle and exerted an enormous influence down through the seventeenth century. In the incunabula period alone, printers in Strassburg, Lyon, Milan, Padua, Bologna, Pavia, and Venice vied with each other in its production.

Avicenna 980-1037

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1479

Public Domain.

Latin