Nahyan Fancy: 1 book
Science and Religion in Mamluk Egypt
Ibn al-Nafis, Pulmonary Transit and Bodily Resurrection
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
The discovery of the pulmonary transit of blood was a ground-breaking discovery in the history of the life sciences, and a prerequisite for William Harvey’s fully developed theory of blood circulation three centuries later. This book is the first attempt at understanding Ibn al-Nafīs’s anatomical...
