Medieval · c. 1085–1138
Who influenced Avempace?
Influences and legacy
Andalusian commentator who mapped the solitary intellect's union with the active mind.
Avempace was influenced by Al-Farabi and Avicenna, and went on to influence Ibn Tufail. That is 3 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
Who was Avempace?
Ibn Bajja, known in Latin as Avempace, was an Arab polymath of al-Andalus who wrote on astronomy, physics, music, medicine and botany as well as philosophy; his Book of Plants defined the sex of plants. He wrote one of the first commentaries on Aristotle in the Western world, and his ideas influenced Averroes and Albertus Magnus.
His theory of projectile motion was never translated into Latin, yet it became widely known and later influenced Galileo. He was also a celebrated musician and poet. He died young, and much of his work was left unfinished.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Avempace?
2 direct influences on this map, earliest first.
Who did Avempace influence?
1 thinker on this map draws directly on Avempace.
- Ibn Tufail c. 1105–1185
The line of teachers behind Avempace
The longest documented line of influence ending at Avempace runs 9 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.
Two steps away from Avempace
Indirect influences
The second generation
- Through Ibn Tufail: Averroes
Contemporaries of Avempace
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Avempace, with no direct line between them.
- Peter Abelard 1079–1142
- Peter Lombard c. 1096–1160
- Hildegard of Bingen 1098–1179
Avempace by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 2
- Direct followers
- 1
- Thinkers upstream
- 18
- Thinkers downstream
- 141
- Wikipedia languages
- 53 — #36 of 58 among medieval philosophers
- Card rarity
- Epic
Questions about Avempace
- Who influenced Avempace?
- Al-Farabi and Avicenna.
- Who did Avempace influence?
- Ibn Tufail.
- When did Avempace live?
- c. 1085–1138. The map files Avempace under the medieval period.
- How rare is the Avempace card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Avempace in 53 languages, which makes it an Epic card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
More medieval philosophers
- Augustine of Hippo AD 354–430
- Thomas Aquinas 1225–1274
- Avicenna 980–1037
- Ibn Khaldun 1332–1406
- Al-Ghazali c. 1058–1111
- Averroes 1126–1198
- Erasmus 1466–1536
- Hypatia c. 355–415