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The title page of the 1556 edition of Avicenna's The Canon of Medicine (Al-Qanun fi al-Tibb). This edition (sometimes called the 1556 Basel edition) was translated by medieval scholar Gerard of Cremona.
Avicenna’s early logic teacher was a tutor named Nātili. Nātili instructed the young Avicenna in elementary logic, though Avicenna soon surpassed his teacher and began studying Hellenistic authors independently.1