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Questions and Answers (correspondence with Ibn Sina)

c. 997 · by al-Biruni

Exchange of letters around 997: al-Biruni put questions on Aristotle’s On the Heavens and Physics – whether the heavens could have weight, whether other worlds are possible, whether a vacuum is really impossible – and Ibn Sina answered in defence of Aristotle; al-Biruni objected to the answers, and Ibn Sina’s student al-Maʿsumi replied.

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