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The Book of Healing by Ibn Sina (1027)
Journey into one of the great monuments of medieval science with The Book of Healing, the sweeping philosophical and scientific encyclopedia written in 1027 by the Persian polymath Ibn Sina. Far more than a medical manual, Ibn Sina's work—known in Arabic as Kitab al-Shifa—set out to "heal" the mind through knowledge, bringing together logic, natural science, psychology, mathematics, and metaphysics into a single grand system of understanding. In this episode, we explore how Ibn Sina built on the legacy of Aristotle and earlier Greek thinkers while shaping Islamic and later European philosophy…
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