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Al-Kindī was known in the Latin West as an expert on astrology, weather forecasting, medicine, philosophy, and the theory of magic. In university contexts he ranked alongside al-Fārābī, Avicenna, al-Ġazālī, and Averroes as an Arabic philosophical authority, as a result of the translation of three of his philosophical “letters.” Two Latin works, not extant in Arabic, became classical texts in two practical subjects: weather forecasting and magic. Conspicuous in his Latin works is the application of mathematics to natural science.
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Burnett, C. (2011). al-Kindī, Latin Translations of. In: Lagerlund, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9729-4_290
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