HAMSIAH HAMID (0239238)

INTAN SUHANA HASAN (0234686)

NURUL ‘ASYIKIN MAT YUNUS (0239498)

Abu Ali AL-Hussain Ibn Abdallah Ibn Sina (Avicenna)

Born in 980 AD at Afshana

Received his early education in Bukhara

10 years old - Become well versed in the study of the Quran and various sciences

17 years old – Cure Nooh Ibn Mansoor, the King of Bukhara, of an illness in which all the well-known physicians had given up hope

21 years old – Become an established physician and political administrator

Died in 1037 A.D

Famous book - Qanun fi al-Tibb (Canon)

His important original contribution includes:

Recognition of the contagious nature of phthisis

and tuberculosis

Distribution of diseases by water and soil

Interaction between psychology and health

The first to describe meningitis

Described 760 drugs for pharmacological methods

Made rich contributions to anatomy, gynecology and child health

The first physician who suggested the treatment for lachrymal fistula

Famous contribution - Kitab al-Shifa (Book of Healing)

It classified the entire field such as:

Theoretical knowledge

Physics

Mathematics

Metaphysics

Practical knowledge

Ethics

Economics

Politic

Other his well known works – Al - Najat and Isharat.

Observed Venus as a spot against the surface of the Sun

Correctly deduced that Venus must be closer to the Earth than the Sun

Invented an instrument for observing the coordinates of a star

Calculate the difference in longitude

between Baghdad and Gurgan by

observing a meridian transit of

the moon at Gurgan

Doubling a 'great' step towards the harmonic system

Observed that in the series of consonances represented by (n + 1)/n, the ear is unable to distinguish them when n = 45

His work was mainly on tonic intervals, rhythmic patterns, and musical instruments

Contributed to the study of different forms of energy, heat, light and mechanical, and such concepts as force, vacuum and infinity

Propounded on an interconnection between time and motion

Made investigations on specific gravity and used an air thermometer

Did not believe in the possibility of chemical transmutation in metals

His treatise on minerals was one of the main sources of geology of Christian encyclopedist

The first scientist to describe the minute and graphic description of different parts of the eye

Condemned conjectures and presumptions in anatomy

Asserts that muscular movements are possible because of the nerves supplied to them, and the perception of pain in the muscles is also due to the nerves.

Observes that liver spleen and

kidney do not contain any nerves

but the nerves are embedded in

the covering of these organs

Less known in Earth Science

In Kitab Al-Shifa, He had presented fundamental principles of Geology in terms of Earth processes, major events and long geologic time

One of the greatest Muslim scholars in the world

A famous clinician or an eminent writer

A renowned pharmacologist, philosophers, researchers, theorist, poet, and a successful politician

More than 276 books, essays and treaties credited to him

He considered the scientific and mathematical theory of the world and ultimate causation by God

His aim is sought to be integrate all aspect and religion in a metaphysical vision

He is considered as one of the four great Mutalizite scholars besides Al-Kindi, Al-Farabi and Ibn Rusyd