Husayni Isfahani

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Who is Husayni Isfahani?

Ghiyath al-Din Ali ibn Amirin Husayni Isfahani was a 15th-century Persian physician and scientist from Isfahan, Iran. He is best known for a Persian encyclopedia of the natural sciences entitled Danish'namah-i Jahaan, which he completed in either 1474 or 1466. The encyclopedia was concerned with meteorology, mineralogy, botany, and anatomy. A small treatise on foodstuffs, in table format, is preserved in the National Library of Medicine collection.

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  • Iran
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on July 23, 2013

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