# Event Details

- **Event Name**: ORBITS OF BLOOD IN 14th-CENTURY PERSIA. The Tānksūqnāmah and the Rotational Motion of Blood
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 28 May, 2026 at 04:00 pm (+00:00)
- **Event Description**: A 14th-century Persian medical manual on the "Medicine of Cathay" (Northern China) known as the "Tānksūqnāmah-yi Īlkhān dar funūn-i ʿulūm-i Khaṭāʾī" ("Tānksūqnāmah") explicitly states that blood “makes rounds” within the body, flowing from the liver to the heart, then to the lungs, and returning again to the liver. 

This manual, which was commissioned by the vizier and physician Rashīd al-Dīn Hamadānī (1247–1318) during the Mongol rule in Iran, is an attempt to explain the medicine of the Chinese to a Persian readership by translating a book which was itself a summary of the Chinese medical knowledge of the time.  The work contains a didactic poem called Mài Jué, which is dedicated to pulse diagnosis.

This account, grounded in a model that links bodily processes to celestial movements, does not correspond to Ibn al-Nafīs’s (1213–1288) philosophical description of pulmonary transit, nor does it anticipate William Harvey’s (1578–1657) quantitative theory of systemic circulation, for it is rooted in an astrological understanding of motion and causality. The book draws on Chinese cosmology and medicine as well as the Graeco-Arabic medical heritage, yet ultimately advances its own conception of blood movement, indicating deliberate reinterpretation rather than simple continuity. 

The "Tānksūqnāmah" is therefore best understood as a product of Mongol-era Iran’s distinctive cross-cultural milieu, in which heterogeneous concepts were consciously recombined within a shared intellectual setting. Seen in this light, the text exemplifies how scientific ideas could emerge through reinterpretation within cultural and scientific contact zones rather than through linear transmission within a single lineage.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/pisa-italy/orbits-of-blood-in-14th-century-persia-the-tānksūqnāmah-and-the-rotational-motion-of-blood/200029769497729
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- **city**: Pisa, Italy
- **location**: Online event
- **full address**: Online event, Via Cardinale Pietro Maffi, 46, 56126 Pisa PI, Italia, Pisa, Italy

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