Wednesday, March 2, 2022

Ibnu Sina's Canon Book

Excerpt from the article in 1001 Inventions site below. Full story here.

"In medicine, his encyclpedic book, al-Qanun (The Canon) – Al Qanun Fi Al-Tibb (The Canon of Medicine) – was translated into Latin towards the end of the twelfth century CE, and became a reference source for medical studies in the universities of Europe until the end of the seventeenth century."









Illuminated opening of the first book of the Kitab al-Qanun fi al-tibb (The Canon on Medicine) by Ibn Sina. Undated, probably Iran, beginning of 15th century. Image credit - 1001 Inventions.

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