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Avicenna in Ireland: A manuscript discovery with Padraig O'Machain
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:28:00
Publish Date: 2019-03-20 03:04:56
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This month, an exciting connection was made between Islamic and Irish medicine through the discovery of a medieval fragment of Avicenna’s Canon of Medicine bound in a sixteenth-century printed book. In this episode, Danièle speaks with Pádraig O’Macháin about his discovery of the very first physical evidence that Avicenna was translated and shared in Gaelic.
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