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escuerzoresucitado · 11 days
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Ibn Sina, Biruni, and the Lost Enlightenment
Ibn Sina and Biruni were two of the most outstanding thinkers to have lived between ancient Greece and the European Renaissance. These two giants of a lost era of enlightenment were born in Central Asia about the year 980. For six hundred years Ibn Sina's Canon of Medicine defined the field of medicine from Europe to India, while his thoughts on God and philosophy influenced Muslims, Jews, and Christians, including St. Thomas Aquinas.
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Character, book, and author names under the cut
Daniel Jun- Radio Silence by Alice Oseman
Avicenna "Avi"- Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
Hanne Brum- King of Scars duology by Leigh Bardugo
Uriel- When The Angels Left The Old Country by Sacha Lamb
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existentialcomicsfeed · 8 months
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The Riddle of the Sphinx
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vintagegeekculture · 1 year
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You see people shoot lasers out of their eyes and think nothing of it, but it's a super weird thing that we've just learned to accept. Do you have any idea where the whole "eye beams" thing originates from? Is it Chinese fantasy novels again?
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The reason that "eye lasers" or "eye rays" are a common visual image of super powers is because up until a few centuries ago, the way educated people in the middle ages and even Renaissance believed the eye worked was, it was not a receiver of light, but an emitter of light, that is, that the eye was kind of like a car headlight, illuminating what it saw. This was called the emission theory of light, and it had many proponents, including Plato and, notably, St. Thomas Aquinas. One of the strongest pieces of optical emission is that cat eyes glow in the dark, which means the eye may emit light, or at least, emits something that interacts with light from other sources like the sun.
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Emission theory of light is the most intuitive way you'd think the eye works. If you are a teacher and you talk to kids about how eyes work, they'll tell you that they think it works because the eye sends out something, like sonar.
The emission theory was disproven during the Golden Age of Islamic Science by Avicenna, a Persian scientist and physicist who invented the first keyhole camera in Isfahan, Iran in the 10th Century. He's definitely one of the most interesting people prior to the scientific revolution.
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As for how this got into super-powers, a lot of that comes from who you'd think it would come from: Superman. There are many people who say, based on this or that technicality, that Superman was not the first superhero. This is just pendantic quibbling. Superman is the first superhero in every way that matters, the one who was huge and popular and influential enough to "format the hard drive," as it were, to set the standard of what these things look like going forward.
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Heat Vision was the last of Superman's powers to be added, and was only definitively added in the late 1960s. Prior to that, Superman was said to "heat things up with the power of his x-ray eyes." In other words, on occasion, as a power trick or stunt, he could intensify his otherwise passively emitting x-ray vision into something that emits heat the way radiation does. As proof of this, there are many occasions that this was stopped by gold and lead, the way his x-ray vision was. Likewise, Heat Vision was, in the old days visually represented as white until well into the 70s.
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Over time, "heat from his x-ray eyes," thanks to the telephone game, became it's own power. As a young superfan, I remember always arguing the difference with my other Superman loving 13 year old friends about which was more effective: Heat Vision vs. "Superfriction." (I was always on the side of Superfriction as it worked on lead and gold.)
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LJS 426 is a copy in Arabic of Avicenna's medical encyclopedia, comprising an introduction to general knowledge of medicine, popular through the middle ages and translated and copied widely. The first 40 leaves and the last 10 are replacements.
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Al-Rhazi and Ibn Sina kept alive and advanced much medical knowledge that had largely vanished from Europe – knowledge that had originated in Ancient Greece and Rome, and then spread through Constantinople and Gundeshapur to Baghdad and Bukhara, where it was combined with learnings from India and China, and was eventually translated back into European languages to form a basis for the flowering of the Renaissance. This reawakening of Classical thought inaugurated the age of the university, when medical schools were established throughout Europe, the Middle East, and beyond.
  —  Kill or Cure: An Illustrated History of Medicine (Steve Parker)
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ammg-old2 · 1 year
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Avicenna’s Canon brilliantly synthesises Islamic medicine with that of Hippocrates (460 – 370 BC) and Galen (129 – 200 AD). There are also elements of ancient Persian, Mesopotamian and Indian medicine. This was supplemented by Avicenna’s extensive medical experiences.
In the Canon, Avicenna introduced diagnoses and treatments for illnesses unknown to the Greeks, being the first doctor to describe meningitis. He made new arguments for the use of anaesthetics, analgesics, and anti-inflammatory substances.
Looking forward to modern notions of disease prevention, Avicenna proposed adjustments in diet and physical exercise could heal or prevent illnesses.
Avicenna was also vital to the development of cardiology, pulsology, and our understanding of cardiovascular diseases.
Avicenna’s detailed descriptions of capillary flow and arterial and ventricular contractions in the cardiovascular system (the blood and circulatory system) assisted the Arab-Syrian polymath Ibn al Nafis (1213-1288), who became the first physician to describe the blood’s pulmonary circulation, the movement of blood from the heart to the lungs and back again to the heart.
This happened in 1242, centuries before scientist William Harvey arrived at the same conclusion in 17th century England.
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aurorawest · 4 months
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Title: Daydreams and Pretty Lies Author:@aurorawest​​ Fandom: Some Desperate Glory Rating: T Relationships: Avicenna/Magnus Major Archive Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Word Count: 2.9k Summary: Avi wants to keep making gardens for Magnus even though Magnus doesn't need him for that anymore.
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Magnus came closer. Avi looked up at him. He was so fucking tall. Huge. To say Avi had wanted to climb him like a tree for months now was the obvious joke. Realizing you were queer and that you had a thing for men who could crush your head between their thighs was rough on Gaia. So many massive warbreed guys, so few people who didn’t want to beat him up for his sexuality. “I was looking for you, so I guess, yeah.” There was a little smile on Magnus’s face, not shy, not uncertain, exactly, but like he was holding the full force of it in reserve just in case Avi was in a mood. Which. Fuck. Avi didn’t want to be in a mood with Magnus.
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e-yyup · 1 year
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Öfke karaciğeri,
Keder akciğeri,
Üzüntü mideyi,
Stres kalp ve beyni,
Korku böbrekleri yorar!!
Bunlar vücutta artınca ve sürekli ise o organ hastalanır..
İbn-i Sina
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quotelr · 4 months
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Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.
Avicenna
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farazberjis · 3 months
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The power of thoughts can cause you either illness or recovery -Ibn Sina ( Avicenna)
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bezaarr · 1 year
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FALSAFA-O-MAZHAB (Philosophy And Religion) By Allama Iqbal
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“Jata Hun Thori Door Har Ek Rahroo Ke Sath
With every wayfarer I pace a little far,
Pehchanta Nahin Hun Abhi Rahbar Ko Main”
I do not know yet who is my guide.
What a beautiful conclusion lines.
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Book names + authors under the cut
Cassandra Igarashi/Laura Wilson- The Wicked + The Divine by Kieron Gillen & Jamie McKelvie
Avicenna "Avi"/Magnus Marston- Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
Salim/The Jinn- American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Zhao Yunlan/Shen Wei- Guardian/Zhen Hun by Priest
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rozallinhealth · 2 years
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The importance of avoiding overeating
The mother of all drugs is anorexia.
Most physical and mental health problems and illnesses are directly or indirectly related to overeating or malnutrition according to the holistic doctor, but undereating does not cause these problems.
Most people today have a weak digestive system, and on the one hand, the digestive and repulsive powers of many people are weaker than before, but on the other hand, unfortunately, the volume and variety of foods in one meal, as well as malnutrition. , Today is much more than in the past.
So there are two negative factors in the nutritional status of people, which has increased the incidence of diseases. While malnutrition allows the body to work even if the person is weak and has poor digestion; It can digest food and use it to make cells and energy that can be used.
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al1299 · 2 years
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Just found out my faculty library collect this immersing-great-legendary book. Surely some terminologies had been distinct and unused now but the concept is, however, still accurate 💯
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This was kept up in references shelf so can't be borrowed home. A sign I had to visit here more often.
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As a non-native English people, to get the context comprehensively, I still have to search along dictionary on my other hand. I mean, scientific vocabularies are easy to be understood (especially the Latin-derived words) but for me some terms this book used are kinda unfamiliar and somehow ~biblical~. Ah... I must have to read much more English literature really.
*calling out police grammar out there* XD please don't hesitate to revise my caption down on the comment section
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