Avicenna Definition

ăvĭ-sĕnə
pronoun

Latinized name of Ibn Sina, a Persian polymath.

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Persian physician and Neoplatonist philosopher noted for his Canon of Medicine, a standard medical textbook used in Europe until the 17th century.
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Avicenna Sentence Examples

  • But amid his restless study Avicenna never forgot his love of enjoyment.

  • Under him Avicenna read the Isagoge of Porphyry and the first propositions of Euclid.

  • Avicenna's chief reward for this service was access to the royal library of the Samanids (q.v.), well-known patrons of scholarship and scholars.

  • At the age of twenty-two Avicenna lost his father.

  • Avicenna seems to have declined the offers of Mahmud the Ghaznevid, and proceeded westwards to Urjensh in the modern Khiva, where the vizier, regarded as a friend of scholars, gave him a small monthly stipend.

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