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Hunain ibn Ishaq (809873) was Nestorian physician in the House of Wisdom. He translated many treatises of Galen and the Galenic school into Syriac, and thirty-nine into Arabic; through his renderings some important works of Galen escaped destruction. Hunain also translated Aristotle's Categories, Physics, and Magna Moralia; Plato’s Republic, Timaeus, and Laws; HippocratesAphorisms, DioscoridesMateria Medica, Ptolemy's quadri-partition, and the Old Testament from the Septuagint Greek.

His son Ishaq ibn Hunain helped him with his translations.

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