Avicennae De congelatione et conglutinatione lapidum
Subtitle: being sections of the Kitâb al-shifâ'.
By: The Latin and Arabic texts, edited with an English translation of the latter and with critical notes by E. J. Holmyard and D. C. Mandeville.
Contributors: Aristotle.; Alfred, of Sareshel, tr.; Holmyard, Eric John, 1891-1959, ed; Mandeville, Desmond Christopher, joint ed.
Publisher: P. Guethner
Published: 1927
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Number of pages: 86
Subjects: Petrology; Mineralogy; Mountains
Other titles: Kitâb al-shifâ'.
Notes: The "De mineralibus," 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-shifâ' (Book of the remedy), made by Alfred of Sareshel. cf. Introd.
"Select bibliography": p. [57]-58.