medieval scientific work

C28473
concept

A medieval scientific work is a scholarly text produced between roughly the 5th and 15th centuries that investigates natural phenomena using the philosophical, religious, and observational frameworks of its time.

All labels observed (11)

Label Occurrences
medieval scientific work canonical 15
medieval scientific treatise 4
medieval scientific text 3

Description generation (CDg)

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Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: medieval scientific work
Generated description
A medieval scientific work is a scholarly text produced between roughly the 5th and 15th centuries that investigates natural phenomena using the philosophical, religious, and observational frameworks of its time.

Instances (30)

Instance Via concept surface
Nihāyat al-sūl fī taṣḥīḥ al-uṣūl Islamic scientific work
Kitab al-Hayawan medieval scientific text
Ibn Sahl's treatise on burning mirrors and lenses medieval Arabic scientific text
Tanqih al-Manazir medieval scientific treatise
Elements of Astronomy —
Alfonsine Tables —
Al-Hawi medieval medical work
Kitab al-Ma‘rifa bi al-Hiyal al-Handasiyya medieval scientific treatise
Zij al-Sabi —
Al-Zarqali's Toledan Tables —
Al-Farghani's Elements of Astronomy —
Kitab al-Saydalah medieval Arabic scientific work
Ulugh Beg's Zij-i Sultani 15th-century scientific work
The Book of Healing medieval scholarly work
The Book of Healing —
Kitab al-Kimya medieval scientific text
Kitab al-Rahma al-Kabir —
Book of the Balances —
Jabirian corpus medieval scientific corpus
Book of the Kingdom —
Kitab al-Qanun al-Masudi medieval scientific treatise
Tadhkira fi ilm al-hay'a —
Tahrir al-Majisti —
Epitome of the Almagest medieval astronomical treatise
On the Composition of Ratios medieval scientific text
Book on the Motion of the Celestial Spheres —
Book on the Solar Year —
On the Cause of the Rainbow medieval scientific treatise
Toledan Tables —
Alfonsine Tables —