Avicenna's Canon of Medicine
The textbook European doctors used for six centuries
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Ibn Sina (Avicenna) completed his five-volume Canon in 1025 while moving between the courts of Persian rulers. He combined Hippocrates, Galen and the experience of Islamic physicians, described contagion and set rules for testing drugs. Translated into Latin in the 12th century, it was taught in European universities until the 17th century.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- c. 1000 Stephen I, first king of Hungary — 25 years earlier
Eastern Europe & Russia
- c. 1037 Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kiev — 12 years later
Africa
- c. 1000 Extinction of the elephant birds — 25 years earlier
- 1006 Supernova SN 1006 — 19 years earlier
Asia
- c. 1010 The Tale of Genji — 15 years earlier
- 1044 First gunpowder formulas in the Wujing Zongyao — 19 years later
Americas
- 1021 Norse in North America — 4 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Avicenna (Ibn Sina) (aged 45)
- Yaroslav the Wise (aged 47)
- Cnut the Great (aged 30)
- Edward the Confessor (aged 22)
- Sei Shōnagon (aged 59)
- Robert II the Pious (aged 53)
- Al-Biruni (aged 52)
- Conrad II (aged 35)
- Henry I (aged 17)
- Henry III (aged 9)