Avicennae De congelatione et conglutinatione lapidum.
Contributors: Alfred, of Sareshel.; Holmyard, Eric John, 1891-1959.; Mandeville, Desmond Christopher.
Publisher: AMS Press
Published: 1982
Place of publication: New York
Language: ara
Number of pages: 86
Subjects: Petrology -- Early works to 1800; Mineralogy -- Early works to 1800; Mountains -- Early works to 1800
Other titles: De congelatione et conglutinatione lapidum.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [57]-58.
Contains the "De mineralibus," which was appended, in medieval Arabic-Latin versions, to the fourth book of the Meteorologica of Aristotle. It is "partly a direct translation and partly a résumé of passages in Avicenna's Kitâb al-Shifâʼ (Book of the remedy), made by Alfred of Sareshel.
"The Latin and Arabic texts with an English translation of the latter and with critical notes by E.J. Holmyard and D.C. Mandeville"--Original t.p.
Includes indexes.
Reprint. Originally published: Avicennae De congelatione et congultione lapidum, being sections of the Kitâb al-Shifâʼ. Paris : Paul Geuthner, 1927.