Medievalists.net » Avicenna http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Dyes, Diets and Deodorants: Venetian Beauty Secrets Revealed http://www.medievalists.net/2015/06/08/dyes-diets-and-deodorants-venetian-beauty-secrets-revealed/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/06/08/dyes-diets-and-deodorants-venetian-beauty-secrets-revealed/#comments Tue, 09 Jun 2015 00:53:04 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=58784 If you think it's hard to keep up a beauty regime now, wait until you see what lengths the Venetians went to in order to be beautiful!

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/16/rabies-medieval-persian-literature-canon-avicenna-980-1037-ad/feed/ 0 Medieval Movie Review: The Physician http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/21/medieval-movie-review-physician/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/21/medieval-movie-review-physician/#comments Sat, 21 Jun 2014 15:41:28 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=50566 It's a brilliant film and one well worth your medieval Saturday night in!

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/21/medieval-movie-review-physician/feed/ 0 Avicenna’s Concept of Cardiovascular Drug Targeting in Medicamenta Cordialia http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/19/avicennas-concept-of-cardiovascular-drug-targeting-in-medicamenta-cordialia/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/19/avicennas-concept-of-cardiovascular-drug-targeting-in-medicamenta-cordialia/#comments Fri, 19 Jul 2013 20:30:06 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=42238 Avicenna (980 – 1037 AD) known as the prince of physicians in the west was one of the most prominent Persian thinkers, philosophers, and physicians. Owing to his interests in cardiology, he authored considerable works on different aspects of cardiology.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/19/avicennas-concept-of-cardiovascular-drug-targeting-in-medicamenta-cordialia/feed/ 0 Peripheral facial palsy in the past: contributions from Avicenna, Nicolaus Friedreich and Charles Bell http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/18/peripheral-facial-palsy-in-the-past-contributions-from-avicenna-nicolaus-friedreich-and-charles-bell/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/18/peripheral-facial-palsy-in-the-past-contributions-from-avicenna-nicolaus-friedreich-and-charles-bell/#comments Sat, 18 Aug 2012 15:41:26 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=34894 This study provides historical documents of peripheral facial palsy from Egypt, Greece and Rome, through the middle ages, and the renaissance, and into the last four centuries.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/18/peripheral-facial-palsy-in-the-past-contributions-from-avicenna-nicolaus-friedreich-and-charles-bell/feed/ 0 The Canon: Essential Artillery of the Medieval Medical Student http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/28/the-canon-essential-artillery-of-the-medieval-medical-student/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/28/the-canon-essential-artillery-of-the-medieval-medical-student/#comments Thu, 28 Jun 2012 17:24:41 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=33274 Used in the first medical universities in history, it was years ahead of its time, proving to be relevant in education half a millennium after it was originally written.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/28/the-canon-essential-artillery-of-the-medieval-medical-student/feed/ 0 A medieval Arabic analysis of motion at an instant : the Avicennan sources to the forma fluens/fluxus formae debate http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/22/a-medieval-arabic-analysis-of-motion-at-an-instant-the-avicennan-sources-to-the-forma-%ef%ac%82uens%ef%ac%82uxus-formae-debate/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/22/a-medieval-arabic-analysis-of-motion-at-an-instant-the-avicennan-sources-to-the-forma-%ef%ac%82uens%ef%ac%82uxus-formae-debate/#comments Sun, 22 Apr 2012 21:37:41 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=31194 The first and foremost topic of classical and medieval physics is the concept of motion
(Grk. kine ̄sis, Arb. h ̇ araka, Lat. motio). Within the complex of issues and problems associated with motion, the question ‘in which category does motion itself belong?’ occupied a position of considerable importance in scholastic natural philosophy.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/22/a-medieval-arabic-analysis-of-motion-at-an-instant-the-avicennan-sources-to-the-forma-%ef%ac%82uens%ef%ac%82uxus-formae-debate/feed/ 0 “Neoplatonic Influence in the Writings of Robert Grosseteste” http://www.medievalists.net/2011/08/21/neoplatonic-influence-in-the-writings-of-robert-grosseteste/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/08/21/neoplatonic-influence-in-the-writings-of-robert-grosseteste/#comments Sun, 21 Aug 2011 14:21:04 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=24325 “Neoplatonic Influence in the Writings of Robert Grosseteste” Hendrix, John Shannon (Roger Williams University) School of Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Papers (2008) Abstract Robert Grosseteste was appointed the first chancellor of Oxford University in 1221. He lectured in theology there from 1225 to 1230, and became the first reader to the Greyfriars or Franciscans in […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/08/21/neoplatonic-influence-in-the-writings-of-robert-grosseteste/feed/ 0 Education and Curricula in Early Universities: Some Documentary Evidence http://www.medievalists.net/2011/08/18/education-and-curricula-in-early-universities-some-documentary-evidence/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/08/18/education-and-curricula-in-early-universities-some-documentary-evidence/#comments Thu, 18 Aug 2011 18:36:17 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=24275 Education and Curricula in Early Universities: Some Documentary Evidence Nicolay V. TSAREVSKY (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA) Chemistry: Bulgarian Journal of Chemistry Education, Vol.14:5 (2005) Abstract Several European documents dating from as early as 13th Century (including laws, papal Bulls, and University records) are cited demonstrating that the importance of the syllabus or organized […]

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