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Arab Andalusian polymath (c. 1085 – 1138)
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- Fame55.6
- Momentum6.7
- Academics rank#55
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Lived 1095–1139, aged 44
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Updated 2026-06-11
An Arab polymath from early 12th-century Andalusia who wrote what some consider the first Western commentary on Aristotle, then died at 53 with most of his books unfinished — yet his physics reached Galileo and his botany defined plant sex.
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Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn Bajja was born around 1085 and ranged across astronomy, medicine, mathematics, music, poetry, and philosophy with equal command. He authored the Kitāb an-Nabāt, a botany text that distinguished the sex of plants, and pioneered a phenomenology of the soul that he never completed. His commentary on Aristotle circulated widely despite never being translated from Arabic to Latin; his theories on projectile motion, preserved in "Text 71," shaped medieval thought and later informed Galileo's mechanics. His philosophical work influenced Ibn Rushd and Albertus Magnus. H…
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