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Also Known As Gregorius • Abū al-Faraj • Ibn al-ʿIbrī
Born 1226 • Armenia
Died July 30, 1286 (aged 60) • Marāgheh • Iran
Philoxenus of Mabbug
Syrian bishop
Abraham bar Hiyya
Spanish-Jewish philosopher and scientist
Dimitry Levitzky: portrait of Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot
French philosopher
Ibn al-ʿArabī
Muslim mystic
Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon
Jewish physician and translator
Domingo Gundisalvo
Spanish philosopher
The Canon of Medicine
Avicenna
Persian philosopher and scientist
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, woodcut, 1537.
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
Roman scholar, philosopher, and statesman
Robert Grosseteste
English bishop
Sergius of Resaina
Syrian theologian
Jacob of Edessa
Syrian theologian
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
British author, philosopher, and statesman
John Locke
John Locke
English philosopher
Cicero
Cicero
Roman statesman, scholar, and writer
Martin Buber
Martin Buber
German religious philosopher
Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda
Chilean poet
Jeremy Bentham
Jeremy Bentham
British philosopher and economist
Roger Bacon
Roger Bacon
English philosopher and scientist
Saʿadia ben Joseph
Jewish exegete and philosopher
H.L.A. Hart
English philosopher, teacher, and author

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