Simone Van Riet’s Avicenna Latinus critical series begins publishing the medieval Latin
From 1968 the Avicenna Latinus series (Van Riet and successors, later at Brill) issued critical Latin of Shifa books, a completed philological factory. In the causal graph this event sets in motion Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.
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From 1968 the Avicenna Latinus series (Van Riet and successors, later at Brill) issued critical Latin of Shifa books, a completed philological factory. The dated start used here is 1968. Avicenna did not collate Louvain. Better Latin lets historians separate Gerard, Alpago, and school glosses.
Context
Critical Latin can undermine pious faculty legend. That is a feature. High confidence on the series as a public scholarly machine.
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 1968 critical-Latin series is a philological access path, not a 1150 autograph of Gerard.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Avicenna
PersonDirect 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.
- FactSimone Van Riet’s Avicenna Latinus critical series begins publishing the medieval Latin
- sets in motionDriverDigital Learning Access
- weakensIndicators (3)Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)
impact weight 0.45 · Effect from 1 January 1968 · verified
A 1968 critical-Latin series is a philological access path, not a 1150 autograph of Gerard.
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.18 (weight 0.45 × strength 0.4)
Observed
70% of 10-year-olds · 70 above the normal line (2022)
Worse than normalTwo readings: 57% of 10-year-olds (2019) and 70% of 10-year-olds (2022).
20192022 Above normal = worse
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.16 (weight 0.45 × strength 0.35)
Observed
472 PISA score points · 28 below the normal line (2022)
Worse than normal7 readings, 2003–2022: fell from 499 PISA score points to 472 PISA score points.
Above normal = better
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.14 (weight 0.45 × strength 0.3)
Observed
11% of primary-school-age children · 11 above the normal line (2023)
Worse than normalAbove normal = worse
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.Avicenna Latinus (Van Riet and successors) — Brill serialBrill · High credibility · verified
- 2.Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Ibn Sina [Avicenna]Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · High credibility · verified
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorAvicenna
- contributed toFactSimone Van Riet’s Avicenna Latinus critical series begins publishing the medieval Latin
- sets in motionDriverDigital Learning Access
- weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)
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Factrail. (2026). Simone Van Riet’s Avicenna Latinus critical series begins publishing the medieval Latin. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/av-van-riet-avicenna-latinus-1968
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Accessed 16 October 2026.
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