De Gradibus

Author	Al-Kindi
Original title	رسالة في قدر منفعة صناعة الطب

De Gradibus was an

Latinized name of the book. An alternative name for the book was Quia Primos.^[1]

In De Gradibus, Al-Kindi attempts to apply

illness.^[3] During the Arabic-Latin translation movement of the 12th century, De Gradibus was translated into Latin by Gerard of Cremona.^[1] Al-Kindi's mathematical reasoning was complex and hard to follow; Roger Bacon commented that his method of computing the strength of a drug was extremely difficult to use.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b p. 19, "Al-Kindi, A Precursor Of The Scientific Revolution", Plinio Prioreschi, Journal of the International Society for the History of Islamic Medicine 1, #2 (October 2002), pp. 17–19.
^ ^a ^b p. 18, Prioreschi 2002.
^ (incomplete citation) Klein-Franke, p. 172