The Book of Healing
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The Book of Healing (in Arabic, Kitab ash-Shifa) is a scientific encyclopedia written by the great Persian physician and philosopher Ibn Sina of Persia in the 10th century. Despite its English title, it is not in fact mainly concerned with medicine: the Latin title Sanatio is a mistranslation of Shifa, which in Arabic means something more like "sufficiency".
It covers logic, natural sciences, psychology, geometry, astronomy, arithmetic and music.
This book was greatly influenced by the ancient Greeks, such as Aristotle and Ptolemy. It is subdivided into smaller categories such as ethics and politics. It came up with the theory that Venus is closer to Earth than the Sun.
