The Book of Healing (in Arabic, Kitab ash-Shifa) is a scientific encyclopedia written by the great Iranian peoples Muslim polymath Abū Alī ibn Sīnā (Avicenna) from Afshana, near Bukhara in Central Asia (now Uzbekistan), in the 1000s. Despite its English title, it is not in fact mainly concerned with medicine: the Latin title Sanatio is a mistranslation of Shifa, which in Arabic means something more like "sufficiency". Part of a scientific laboratory at the University of Cologne. ... “Cyclopedia” redirects here. ... The Iranian peoples (See[1] for local names) are a collection of ethnic groups defined by their usage of Iranian languages and their descent from ancient Iranian peoples. ... There is also a collection of Hadith called Sahih Muslim A Muslim (Arabic: مسلم, Persian: Mosalman or Mosalmon Urdu: مسلمان, Turkish: Müslüman, Albanian: Mysliman, Bosnian: Musliman) is an adherent of the religion of Islam. ... “Renaissance man” redirects here. ... (c. ... Bukhara (Tajik: Бухоро; Persian: , Buxârâ; Uzbek: ; Russian: ), from the Soghdian βuxārak (lucky place), is the fifth-largest city in Uzbekistan, and capital of the Bukhara Province (viloyat). ... Map of Central Asia showing three sets of possible boundaries for the region Central Asia located as a region of the world Central Asia is a vast landlocked region of Asia. ... As a means of recording the passage of time, the 11th century was that century which lasted from 1001 to 1100. ...

The book covers arithmetic, astronomy, geometry, logic, mathematics, music, natural sciences, philosophy, and psychology. It was influenced by ancient Greek philosophers such as Aristotle, Hellenistic thinkers such as Ptolemy, and early Muslim scientists such as al-Farabi and al-Biruni. It is subdivided into smaller categories such as ethics and politics. Arithmetic tables for children, Lausanne, 1835 Arithmetic or arithmetics (from the Greek word αριθμός = number) is the oldest and most elementary branch of mathematics, used by almost everyone, for tasks ranging from simple day-to-day counting to advanced science and business calculations. ... This is a sub-article of Islamic science and astronomy. ... Calabi-Yau manifold Geometry (Greek γεωμετρία; geo = earth, metria = measure) is a part of mathematics concerned with questions of size, shape, and relative position of figures and with properties of space. ... In Islamic philosophy, logic played an important role. ... Islamic mathematics is the profession of Muslim Mathematicians. ... For other uses, see Music (disambiguation). ... The Michelson–Morley experiment was used to disprove that light propagated through a luminiferous aether. ... Early Muslim philosophy is considered influential in the rise of modern philosophy. ... Psychology (from Greek: Literally knowledge of the soul (mind)) is both an academic and applied discipline involving the scientific study of mental processes and behavior. ... Greek philosophy focused on the role of reason and inquiry. ... Aristotle (Greek: Aristotélēs) (384 BC – 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. ... The term Hellenistic (derived from Héllēn, the Greeks traditional self-described ethnic name) was established by the German historian Johann Gustav Droysen to refer to the spreading of Greek culture over the non-Greek people that were conquered by Alexander the Great. ... This article is about the geographer, mathematician and astronomer Ptolemy. ... In the history of science, Islamic science refers to the science developed under the Islamic civilisation between the 8th and 15th centuries (the Islamic Golden Age). ... Al Farabi (870-950) was born of a Turkish family and educated by a Christian physician in Baghdad, and was himself later considered a teacher on par with Aristotle. ... (September 15, 973 in Kath, Khwarezm – December 13, 1048 in Ghazni) was a Persian[1][2][3] Muslim polymath[4] of the 11th century, whose experiments and discoveries were as significant and diverse as those of Leonardo da Vinci or Galileo, five hundred years before the Renaissance; al-Biruni was...

Astronomy

In astronomy, the book came up with the theory that Venus is closer to Earth than the Sun. This is a sub-article of Islamic science and astronomy. ... (*min temperature refers to cloud tops only) Atmospheric characteristics Atmospheric pressure 9. ...

Geology

In geology and the earth sciences, the book hypothesized on two causes of mountains: This article includes a list of works cited but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ... Earth science (also known as geoscience, the geosciences or the Earth Sciences), is an all-embracing term for the sciences related to the planet Earth. ... For other uses, see Mountain (disambiguation). ...

"Either they are the effects of upheavals of the crust of the earth, such as might occur during a violent earthquake, or they are the effect of water, which, cutting itself a new route, has denuded the valleys, the strata being of different kinds, some soft, some hard... It would require a long period of time for all such changes to be accomplished, during which the mountains themselves might be somewhat diminished in size."^[1] Earth cutaway from core to exosphere. ... This article is about Earth as a planet. ... An earthquake is the result of a sudden release of stored energy in the Earths crust that creates seismic waves. ... Impact from a water drop causes an upward rebound jet surrounded by circular capillary waves. ... Fljótsdalur in East Iceland, a rather flat valley In geology, a valley is a depression with predominant extent in one direction. ... For other uses, see strata (novel) and strata title. ...

See also

• The Canon of Medicine
• Medical literature

A Latin copy of the Canon of Medicine, dated 1484, located at the P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Library of The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. ... A medical journal is a scientific journal devoted to the field of medicine. ...

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