Among the texts of Avicenna in “the Book of healing” they managed to find a fragment that describes the flash of a star SN 1006.
The medieval Persian scientist Avicenna in 1006 observed the explosion of a supernova in the constellation of the Wolf and wrote a report about it in the “Book of healing”.
This discovery was made by German specialists, according to the website arXiv.org.
The book of healing” written in Arabic and it contains the texts of Avicenna, dedicated to natural Sciences, logic and metaphysics. According to German scientists, one of the fragments of the book describes the explosion of a supernova in the constellation of the Wolf, which occurred on may 1, 1006.
Incidentally, this observation held by Chinese and Arab astronomers, what modern science has known. Not without the help of these “hints from the past” in 1960 in the Australian Parkes Observatory have discovered the remains of a supernova explosion, which was designated as PKS 1459-41.
At the moment it’s a giant gas-dust cloud, which is spreading at the rate of nine thousand kilometers per second and now in diameter reaches a size of 60 light years. Avicenna also known as Ibn Sina) is the most influential scientist and philosopher of the medieval Islamic world. He has contributed to the development of music, literature, psychology, philosophy, mechanics, astronomy, chemistry, medicine and other fields of science. In General, Avicenna, wrote almost 450 works in 29 areas of a science, of which to have survived only 274.
