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| '''Hunain ibn Ishaq''' (]—]) was ] physician in the ]. He translated many treatises of ] and the Galenic school into Syriac, and thirty-nine into Arabic; through his renderings some important works of Galen escaped destruction. Hunain also translated ]'s Categories, Physics, and ]; ]’s ], ], and Laws; ]’ ], ]’ ], ]'s ], and the ] from the ] ]. | '''Hunain ibn Ishaq''' (]—]) was ] physician in the ]. He translated many treatises of ] and the Galenic school into Syriac, and thirty-nine into Arabic; through his renderings some important works of Galen escaped destruction. Hunain also translated ]'s Categories, Physics, and ]; ]’s ], ], and Laws; ]’ ], ]’ ], ]'s ], and the ] from the ] ]. Later medieval sources knew him by the Latinized name, '''Joannitius'''. | ||
| His son ] helped him with his translations. | His son ] helped him with his translations. | ||
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Hunain ibn Ishaq (809—873) 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; Hippocrates’ Aphorisms, Dioscorides’ Materia Medica, Ptolemy's quadri-partition, and the Old Testament from the Septuagint Greek. Later medieval sources knew him by the Latinized name, Joannitius.
His son Ishaq ibn Hunain helped him with his translations.
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