All of us at Hardin want you to be successful, so we are staying open late to help you get ready for finals! Open 7:30am-9pm, Friday, December 11 Open Noon-9pm, Saturday, December 12 Open Noon-9pm, Sunday, December 13 Wrapped snacks available while supplies last. John Martin Rare Book Room open for a study break orContinue reading “Get Ready for Finals: Later Hours, Snacks, Rare Book Room Open”
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Medical Arts: Teaching Art History Through The John Martin Rare Book Room – Video of Talk by Vero Rose Smith
Watch a recording of Vero Rose Smith’s talk on November 11, 2020 Medical Arts: Teaching Art History Through The John Martin Rare Book Room For the past eight years, students enrolled in art history and studio arts courses explored the holdings of the John Martin Rare Book Room. Here, they pored over weeping welts, ballooningContinue reading “Medical Arts: Teaching Art History Through The John Martin Rare Book Room – Video of Talk by Vero Rose Smith”
Welcome Damien Ihrig, Curator, John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library
Hardin Library for the Health Sciences is happy to welcome Damien Ihrig to the Hardin staff! He comes to the library as the Curator for the John Martin Rare Book Room and has a long history of working in higher education, including medical education. Damien recently completed his Master’s in Library Science from the UniversityContinue reading “Welcome Damien Ihrig, Curator, John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library”
Girolamo Mercuriale | Art of Gymnastics | April 2020 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library
GIROLAMO MERCURIALE (1530-1606) De arte gymnastica libri sex. Apud Juntas 1587 3rd ed. 3, 308 [27] pp. illus. 23.6 cm .[The Art of Gymnastics, volume six in Latin]. Mercuriale, professor of medicine at Bologna and Pisa, is best know for this masterwork, first published in 1569. De arte gymnastica was the first complete text onContinue reading “Girolamo Mercuriale | Art of Gymnastics | April 2020 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library”
Cancelled | 2020 R. Palmer Howard History of Medicine Society Dinner | April 24 | Marie Jenkins Schwartz, Enslaved Women | Cancelled
The University of Iowa History of Medicine Society and Hardin Library for the Health Sciences announce that the 2020 R. Palmer Howard Dinner scheduled for Friday, April 24 has been cancelled. The event will not be rescheduled.
CANCELLED |2020 Open House | John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library | Black Plague | March 26
The 2020 John Martin Rare Book Room Open House has been cancelled. This event will not be rescheduled. Please see our online exhibit: The Black Death: The Plague, 1331-1770
Mattioli | Encyclopedia of Renaissance pharmacology | February 2020 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library
PIETRO ANDREA MATTIOLI (1500-1577) Commentarii, in libros sex Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei, Demedica materia. In officina Erasmiana; Apud Vincentium Valgrisium 1554 [48] 707 [1] pp., illus. 31.5 cm. Mattioli of Siena studied medicine at Padua where he graduated in 1523. During his career, he practiced at Siena, Perugia, Rome, Trent, and Gorizia. Mattioli was physician toContinue reading “Mattioli | Encyclopedia of Renaissance pharmacology | February 2020 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library”
Lower Pioneer of Experimental Physiology | December 2019 Notes from The John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library
RICHARD LOWER (1631-1691). Tractatus de corde. Amsterdam: Apud Danielem Elzevirium, 1669. [16] 232 pp Richard Lower was one of the foremost English physiologists of the seventeenth century. Soon after receiving his M.D. degree in 1665, Lower relocated to London. He quickly acquired a large practice, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and later aContinue reading “Lower Pioneer of Experimental Physiology | December 2019 Notes from The John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library”
Da Vinci Catalogue of Drawings | November 2019 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library
LEONARDO DA VINCI (1452-1519). A catalogue of the drawings . . . in the collection of His Majesty the King at Windsor Castle. 2 vols. New York: Macmillan and Cambridge, England: 1935. Leonardo Da Vinci was one of the greatest artists and scientists of the Italian Renaissance. His contributions to science include significant accomplishments inContinue reading “Da Vinci Catalogue of Drawings | November 2019 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library”
Anthony van Leeuwenhoek | Microscope Builder | October 2019 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library
ANTHONY VAN LEEUWENHOEK (1632-1723). Continuation arcanorum naturae detectorum. Delft: Apud Henricum a Kroonevelt, 1697. Antonio van Leeuwenhoek, of Delft, was the first to use the microscope systematically and brought the construction of the simple microscope to a high degree of perfection. Self-taught and never having attended a university, ignorant of Latin and Greek and the classicalContinue reading “Anthony van Leeuwenhoek | Microscope Builder | October 2019 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library”