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Johannes Herbort at Padua prints a dated Latin Canon in 1476 for a university town

A 1476 Padua Canon is a faculty-town access path, not a licence to freeze anatomy. 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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Padua is later a famous medical faculty. Print on the spot is an access path into a teaching city.

Context

Padua also locked the Canon into exams. Split that harm onto Siraisi. High confidence on ISTC dating.

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 1476 Padua Canon is a faculty-town access path, not a licence to freeze anatomy.

Who was responsible

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

  • Avicenna

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.24 · 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.ISTC ia01418000 — Canon medicinae, Padua Herbort 1476Consortium of European Research Libraries · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Siraisi, Avicenna in Renaissance Italy (Princeton)Princeton University Press · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

ISTC ia01418000 records Padua: Johannes Herbort, 1476, with part I dated 28 September 1476, a Latin Canon with De viribus cordis.

Causal path

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

  1. ActorAvicenna
  2. contributed toFactJohannes Herbort at Padua prints a dated Latin Canon in 1476 for a university town
  3. strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
  4. weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)

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Factrail. (2026). Johannes Herbort at Padua prints a dated Latin Canon in 1476 for a university town. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/av-padua-herbort-canon-1476

https://factrail.ai/facts/av-padua-herbort-canon-1476

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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