EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -He died in 1037 AD at the age of 57. He was burried in the city of Hamadan. A monument was erected in that city near the site of his grave. It is claimed that Ibn Sina had written about 450 works, of which 240 had survived.

Detailed explanation-2: -Among the great sages of Islamic medicine, Ibn Sina is the best known in the West. Considered as the successor to Galen, his great medical treatise, the Canon was the standard textbook on medicine in the Arab world and Europe in the 17th century. He was a philosopher, physician, psychiatrist and poet.

Detailed explanation-3: -Ibn Sina’s two most important works are The Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine. The first is a scientific encyclopaedia covering logic, natural sciences, psychology, geometry, astronomy, arithmetic and music. The second is the most famous single book in the history of medicine.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Book of Healing (Arabic: , romanized: Kitāb al-Shifāʾ; Latin: Sufficientia; also known as The Cure or Assepha) is a scientific and philosophical encyclopedia written by Abu Ali ibn Sīna (aka Avicenna) from medieval Persia, near Bukhara in Maverounnahr.