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Ibn Sin Persian Polymath Of The Golden Ages

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Avicenna: The Canon Of Medicine

Mohammed Alfakhri

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Dr. Abraham

Emma Dowling

November 24th, 2016
To the Exhibit Approval Board,

Maintaining historical artifacts is greatly important for our humanity because they are evolutionary evidence of what design and shapes our world today. Exhibiting these evidence shows what our technology has developed on. Without this historical information, todays depth of technology and science would have showed different thing than now. Ibn sina, or Avicenna as Western Europe know him, was the Persian polymath of the golden ages of Islam. Ibn sina has made great improvement to natural philosophy. He wrote many books and texts optics and medicine and others, however, “his most important work was the Canon of Medicine. The canon is a huge encyclopaedia. The …show more content…

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