Hunayn ibn Ishaq

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Hunayn ibn Ishaq, (Latin: Johannitius) Arab Islamic scholar whose translations of Plato, Aristotle, Galen, Hippocrates, and the Neoplatonists made accessible to Arab philosophers and scientists the significant sources of Greek thought and culture. Encyclopædia Britannica [link]

References

John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson. [] at the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.

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