KITÂB AL-SHIFÂ or BOOK OF HEALING: THE LATIN AND ARABIC TEXTS EDITED WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE LATTER AND WITH CRITICAL NOTES
Book Details + Condition: Librarie Orientaliste de Paul Geuthner (Paris), 1927. Softcover. 86 pages. Volume on medieval sciences and philosophy by Persian polymath Avicennae, also known as Ibn Sina, originally published in 1027 CE. Includes notes by E.J. Holmyard and D.C. Mandeville. This edition includes an English translation as well as text in Latin (falsely attributed to Aristotle) and Arabic. A question long plaguing students of the history of medieval sciences is answered. The contributors show that ARISTOTLE'S BOOK OF MINERALS "is a translation - more or less satisfactory and not always complete - of passages occuring in Avicennae's great work THE BOOK OF THE REMEDY. Topics include geology, chemistry, astronomy, metaphysics, alchemy, transmutation, psychology, and much more. Paper binding with black text to covers. An extremely scarce copy in very good condition, as it has not been read: pages remain uncut.
