Ibn Sina, Abu Ali [known as Avicenna] (980-1037)
Abstract
Islamic philosopher and scientist, born in Kharmaithen, near Bukhara (now Uzbekistan). Avicenna's life was marked by swings of fortune, from physician and favored scholar of a Samanid prince, to peripatetic country doctor when the Samanid regime fell. He became court physician in Hamadan (Iran), where he was for a time imprisoned as a political prisoner. He ended his life in a peaceful, contem...
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Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Pub Date:
- November 2000
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- Bibcode:
- 2000eaa..bookE3736.
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- History and Archaeoastronomy;
- Biographies