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Avicenna, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sīnā

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  1. Color Research, AkzoNobel Performance Coatings, Rijksstraatweg 31, 2171 AJ, Leiden, The Netherlands

    Eric Kirchner

  2. AUT Textile Department, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran Polytechnic, Tehran, Iran

    Seyed Hossein Amirshahi

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Kirchner, E., Amirshahi, S.H. (2014). Avicenna, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sīnā. In: Luo, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Color Science and Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27851-8_336-1

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