Event details: Thursday, May 1, 2014, 7:00 p.m. Shambaugh Auditorium, Main Library Hart and O’Brien in their St. Paul home. [Image via twincities.com] Celebrate 30 years of conservation at the University of Iowa with an evening of Irish music and mystery. Detective fiction writer Erin Hart will share how the discovery of the ninth centuryContinue reading “An evening of Irish music & mystery featuring author Erin Hart and musician Paddy O’Brien”
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Ibn Butlan’s Tacuini Sanitatis (1531)
Image via the guardian.com, credit Royal Society This images are from a 14th century translation of Arabic doctor Ibn Butlan, who died circa 1068. Butlan’s title roughly translates to “health report.” The report addresses the impact of nature, emotional states, daily life, and meteorological conditions on health. Butlan wrote that his book concerned “the sixContinue reading “Ibn Butlan’s Tacuini Sanitatis (1531)”