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Gruner publishes an English Book I of the Canon, opening the text beyond Latin faculties

Gruner’s 1930 treatise is also an access instrument: Book I in English, later scanned. Readers without Latin could check what faculties had locked. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.

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Gruner’s 1930 treatise is also an access instrument: Book I in English, later scanned. The dated book is London’s. Avicenna did not English it. Readers without Latin could check what faculties had locked.

Context

The same volume prints venesection. Split that harm. High confidence on publication.

Avicenna is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

Why it matters

A 1930 English Book I is a knowledge-access gain, not a licence for depletion.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Avicenna

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.28 · verified

    Named physician-philosopher as heading of later editions, faculties, and commemorations. Printers, faculties, and agencies publish the instrument.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.James Lind Library — Ibn Sina’s Canon: rules for assessing the effects of drugsJames Lind Library · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Gruner, A Treatise on the Canon of Medicine of Avicenna (1930) — scanInternet Archive · High credibility · verified

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorAvicenna
  2. contributed toFactGruner publishes an English Book I of the Canon, opening the text beyond Latin faculties
  3. strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
  4. weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)

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Factrail. (2026). Gruner publishes an English Book I of the Canon, opening the text beyond Latin faculties. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/av-gruner-english-access-1930

https://factrail.ai/facts/av-gruner-english-access-1930

Accessed 15 October 2026.

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