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Avicenna and the Book of Medicine

Author: Bayarri, Jordi

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level 4.7
Points 0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction Nonfiction
Word Count 2951
Points per Word 0.000169
Page Count 40
Points per Page 0.0125

Description

In the Islamic Golden Age, Avicenna wrote an early medical encyclopedia, The Canon of Medicine, which was a groundbreaking text that scholars and healers read for centuries afterward. Book themes include religious bias.