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Millennium Essay
Nature 404, 227 (16 March 2000) | doi:10.1038/35005178
A 1,000-year chain of thinkers
Giovanni F. Bignami1
Science, and indeed thought, at the dawn of the second Christian millennium blossomed in the Arabic world. Abdulla ibn Sina (980–1037) — known to the west as Avicenna — opens the millennium with his first philosophical work in 1001.
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