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Darrera modificació: 2016-10-31
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Miguel Mora, Carlos de, "Sobre la identificación entre ébano y guayaco en una entrada del Index Dioscoridis de Amato Lusitano", dins: Andrade, António Manuel Lopes - Miguel Mora, Carlos de - Torrão, João Manuel Nunes (coords.), Humanismo e Ciência: Antiguidade e Renascimento, Aveiro - Coimbra - Sao Paulo, UA Editora - Universidade de Aveiro - Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra - Annablume, 2015, 317-351.
- Resum
- In this article we explore how the Index Dioscoridis, the first commentary by Amatus Lusitanus on Dioscorides' work on materia medica, contributes to the confusion between guaiac and ebony which, as is well known, was produced at the beginning of 16th century. To do this, we first endeavour to explore how the French disease appears, to conclude that the novelty of the disease demanded, in like measure, an equally novel treatment, in this case the application of guaiac, from the so-called West Indies. Although information on plants was arriving from the new world, the unavailability of guaiac and, what is more surprising, the apparent lack of knowledge about ebony, but for the descriptions provided by ancient authors, allowed for a confusion which was further intensified by economic issues (the control of the guaiac market by a few families) and the characteristics of natural history in the Renaissance. We then analyze some texts that allow us to understand the evolution of the comparison between guaiac and ebony, step by step, in order to arrive at the Index of Amato, which represents a radical paradigm shift due to his convictions and to the arguments with which he defends the position of the identity of the two species.
- Matèries
- Història natural - Vegetals
Medicina - Farmacologia
- URL
- https://digitalis.uc.pt/en/livro/sobre_la_identific ...
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