medicine, such as Ibn Bajjah, Ibn Tufayl, Ibn Rushd, and ben Maimon, who held on so firmly to the teachings of Aristotle? I can think of three possible reasons. First, physicians would naturally be most interested in Aristotle’s writings on biology, and in these Aristotle was at his best. Also, Arab physicians were powerfully influenced by the writings of Galen, who greatly admired Aristotle. Finally, medicine is a field in which the precise confrontation of theory and observation was very difficult (and still is), so that the failings of Aristotelian physics and astronomy to agree in detail
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