Avicennae De congelatione et conglutinatione lapidum.

Description

Main Author

Avicenna, 980-1037.

Related Names

Mandeville, Desmond Christopher.
Holmyard, Eric John, 1891-1959.
Alfred, of Sareshel.

Language(s)

Arabic ; English ; Latin

Published

New York : AMS Press, [1982]

Subjects

Mountains > Mountains / Early works to 1800.
Mineralogy > Mineralogy / Early works to 1800.
Petrology > Petrology / Early works to 1800.

Note

Reprint. Originally published: Avicennae De congelatione et congultione lapidum, being sections of the Kitâb al-Shifâʼ. Paris : Paul Geuthner, 1927.
Includes indexes.
"The Latin and Arabic texts with an English translation of the latter and with critical notes by E.J. Holmyard and D.C. Mandeville"--Original t.p.
Contains the "De mineralibus," which was appended, in medieval Arabic-Latin versions, to the fourth book of the Meteorologica of Aristotle. It is "partly a direct translation and partly a résumé of passages in Avicenna's Kitâb al-Shifâʼ (Book of the remedy), made by Alfred of Sareshel.

Physical Description

viii, 86 p. ; 23 cm.

ISBN

0404184472

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