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( ´v mp s, ä´´v mpä´th ) (KEY) , Arabic Ibn Bajja, d. 1138, Spanish-Arab philosopher. Little is known of his life, but he was born in Zaragoza a...
( d´ lärd) (KEY) , fl. 12th cent., English scholastic philosopher, celebrated for his study of Arabic learning. He translated Euclid from Arabic int...
( r st p´ s) (KEY) , c.435–c.360 B.C., Greek philosopher of Cyrene, first of the Cyrenaics. He held pleasure to be the highest good and virtue to b...
(äl N´ d l l) (KEY) , c.1128–c.1202, French scholastic philosopher, a Cistercian, honored by his contemporaries as the Universal Doctor. He was b...
(py ´tr dä´bän ) (KEY) , 1250?–1316?, Italian physician and philosopher, a professor of medicine in Padua. His famous work Conciliator differen...
(är´l n) (KEY) , 1905–86, American jazz and popular composer, b. Buffalo, N.Y., as Hyman Arluck. Arlen sang from the age of 7 in the synagogue whe...