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Ibn Bajja (died 1138)

Spanish-born Arab philosopher and poet. He worked as a physician in Seville, Spain. He followed al-Farabi's interpretation of late Greek philosophy. His summaries of Aristotle have survived, together with a number of small treatises upon a variety of subjects; many of them remain unpublished. Ibn Bajja was born in Zaragoza (Saragossa), Spain.



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Ibn Sina's views were added to those of Ibn al-Haytham, who spoke of momentum, as well as the theories of Ibn Bajjah and others, and they played a critical role in showing the weakness of Aristotelian physics in explaining projectile motion and in preparing the ground for Galileo's rejection of that physics.
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