Avicenna (Ibn Sina) 980-1037, Arab physician and philosopher. An interpreter of Aristotle to Islam; compiled encyclopaedia of medical knowledge. Woodcut from Hartmann Schedel 'Liber chronicarum mundi' (Nuremberg Chronicle) Nuremberg 1493, showing Avicenna examining a specimen of urine in order to make a diagnosis.

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Avicenna (Ibn Sina) 980-1037, Arab physician and philosopher. An interpreter of Aristotle to Islam; compiled encyclopaedia of medical knowledge. Woodcut from Hartmann Schedel 'Liber chronicarum mundi' (Nuremberg Chronicle) Nuremberg 1493, showing Avicenna examining a specimen of urine in order to make a diagnosis.

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