Do not be surprised if I adore as God what you called humanity, since you talked of humanity as if it was empty of spirit and you think in the flesh according to the flesh.

He was a polymath versed in many sciences: mathematics astronomy and meteorology geography human anatomy medicine and pharmacology as well as jurisprudence translation poetry and the scholarly study of the Bible in its original languages. He is renowned in the history of several of these fields particularly medicine and theology.