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Avicenna Bay is a small bay lying 1.5 miles (2.4 km) southwest of D'Ursel Point along the east side of Brabant Island, in the Palmer Archipelago. It was roughly charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Adrien de Gerlache, 1897–99, photographed by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd in 1956–57, and mapped from these photos in 1959. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Avicenna, greatest of the Persian school of physicians.

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Avicenna Bay

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Avicenna Bay is a small bay lying 1.5 miles (2.4 km) southwest of D'Ursel Point along the east side of Brabant Island, in the Palmer Archipelago. It was...

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Avicenna

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romanized: Ibn Sīnā; 980 – June 1037 CE), commonly known in the West as Avicenna (/ˌævɪˈsɛnə, ˌɑːvɪ-/), was a preeminent philosopher and physician of the...

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Asafoetida

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described by a number of Arab and Islamic scientists and pharmacists. Avicenna discussed the effects of asafoetida on digestion. Ibn al-Baitar and Fakhr...

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Nigella sativa

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as a condiment of the Old World to flavour food. The Muslim physician Avicenna described N. sativa as a treatment for dyspnea in his The Canon of Medicine...

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Bhitarkanika Mangroves

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About 62 mangrove species occur in the Bhitarkanika Mangroves, including Avicenna, Bruguiera, Heritiera and Rhizophora. Reptiles present in the mangroves...

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Opium

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including the Ebers Papyrus and the writings of Dioscorides, Galen, and Avicenna. Widespread medical use of unprocessed opium continued through the American...

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List of In Our Time programmes

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Professor of Christian Doctrine at King's College London 8 November 2007 Avicenna Peter Adamson, Reader in Philosophy at King's College London Amira Bennison...

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List of epistemologists

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Theophrastus Timon of Phlius Zeno of Citium Xenophanes Thomas Aquinas Avicenna Averroes Roger Bacon Al-Farabi Marsilio Ficino Gaṅgeśa Al-Ghazali Al-Kindi...

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Herb

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elemental healing metaphor. Famous herbalist of the Western tradition include Avicenna (Persian), Galen (Roman), Paracelsus (German Swiss), Culpepper (English)...

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List of mountains by elevation

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22,897 Karakoram, Pakistan Karun Kuh 6,977 22,890 Karakoram, Pakistan Avicenna Peak 6,974 22,881 Pamir Mountains, Tajikistan – #3 in Pamirs Ulugh Muztagh...

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Saffron

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uses of saffron: Identifying potential new avenues for modern research". Avicenna Journal of Phytomedicine. 1 (2): 27–66. Archived from the original on 4...

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Transit of Venus

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The Persian polymath Avicenna claimed to have observed Venus as a spot on the Sun. There was a transit on 24 May 1032, but Avicenna did not give the date...

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Thomas Aquinas

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receptive to and influenced by Avicenna's Proof of the Truthful. Concerning the nature of God, Thomas, like Avicenna felt the best approach, commonly...

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Fossil

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explained them in terms of vaporous exhalations, which Persian polymath Avicenna modified into the theory of petrifying fluids (succus lapidificatus). Recognition...

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Abbasid Caliphate

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by Thomas Aquinas. Three speculative thinkers, al-Kindi, al-Farabi, and Avicenna, combined Aristotelianism and Neoplatonism with other ideas introduced...

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Bertrand Russell

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at his home in Penrhyndeudraeth, aged 97. His body was cremated in Colwyn Bay on 5 February 1970 with five people present. In accordance with his will...

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List of people on banknotes

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order, poet and a prominent Muslim scholar 10 somoni Obverse 1999–2013 Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā) 980–1037 Polymath and jurist 20 somoni Obverse 1999–2013 Bobojon...

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Enema

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ivory, or horn attached to the scrotum of a deer, goat, or ox. In Persia, Avicenna (980–1037 A. D.) is credited with the introduction of the "clyster-purse"...

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Daniel Dennett

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ISBN 0-262-54053-3 (First published 1987) Consciousness Explained. Back Bay Books. 1992. ISBN 0-316-18066-1. Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the...

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Teleological argument

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this they were followed by medieval philosophers such as Al-Farabi and Avicenna. Later, Averroes and Thomas Aquinas considered the argument acceptable...

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Scientific method

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throughout history, for instance with the ancient Stoics, Epicurus, Alhazen, Avicenna, Al-Biruni, Roger Bacon, and William of Ockham. In the scientific revolution...

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Culture of Iran

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centuries of after the Muslim conquest of the Sasanian Empire, most notably Avicenna, Farabi, Qotb-ed-Din Shirazi, and Safi-ed-Din Urmawi. Iran has a rich and...

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History of bookselling

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found their way to private libraries of famous Muslim scholars such as Avicenna, al-Ghazālī, and al-Fārābī, who in turn made their homes centres of scholarly...

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Renaissance

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for the first time since late antiquity. Muslim logicians, most notably Avicenna and Averroes, had inherited Greek ideas after they had invaded and conquered...

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Kublai Khan

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"Department of extensive mercy", where Hui medicine and surgery were taught. Avicenna's works were also published in China during that period. Muslim mathematicians...

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