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Where did Ibn Sina compile the Canon of Medicine around 1025?
Ibn Sina compiled the five-volume Canon at the Buyid court at Isfahan around 1025. The Latin translation by Gerard of Cremona (c. 1180) made it Europe's medical-school textbook for almost 500 years.
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The 1025 CE Persian Medical Textbook That Was the Standard Reference in European Universities From 1180 to Roughly 1650 Ibn Sina's *Canon of Medicine*, compiled at Isfahan around 1025, synthesised Greek, Roman, Persian, and Arabic medical traditions into a five-volume systematic treatise. Translated into Latin in Toledo by Gerard of Cremona around 1180, it became the standard medical-school textbook at Paris, Padua, Montpellier, and Bologna for almost five centuries. The first English translation appeared in 1930.
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