Avicenna

The Persian polymath whose Canon of Medicine ruled medical teaching for six centuries.

Core Principles & Analysis

• His al-Qanun fi al-Tibb was a standard text in European universities into the 1600s.
• Wrote some 450 works spanning medicine, philosophy, astronomy and geology.
• His proof of the necessary existent, the "Floating Man" argument aside, shaped scholastic philosophy.

Specifications & Metrics

• ERA: 980 – 1037