About Ishaq ibn Hunayn
Lived 830 – 910 (aged 79–80). Ishaq ibn Hunayn was a mathematician, translator, writer and physician.
Double-page from the Ishaq ibn Hunayn's Arabic Translation of Euclid's Elements. Iraq, 1270. Chester Beatty Library
Abū Yaʿqūb Isḥāq ibn Ḥunayn (c. 830 Baghdad, – c. 910-1) was an influential Arab physician and translator, known for writing the first biography of physicians in the Arabic language. He is also known for his translations of Euclid's Elements and Ptolemy's Almagest. He is the son of the famous translator Hunayn Ibn Ishaq.
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Ishaq ibn Hunayn was born in 830 in Baghdad.
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Ishaq ibn Hunayn died in 910 in Baghdad.
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Ishaq ibn Hunayn was a mathematician, translator, writer and physician.
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