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Isfahani, Husayn, physician
Ghiyath al-Din 'Ali ibn Amirin al-Husayni al-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 Jahan, which he completed in either 1474 or 1466. The encyclopedia was concerned with meteorology, minerology,botany, and anatomy. A small treatise on foodstuffs, in table format, is preserved in the National Library of Medicine collection.
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