Medicine, Trade and Empire: Garcia de Orta’s Colloquies on the Simples and Drugs of India (1563) in Context

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Notes

1 For example, Dmitri Levitin, Ancient Wisdom in the Age of the New Science: Histories of Philosophy in England, C. 1640-1700 (Cambridge, 2015).

2 Clements R. Markham trans. Garcia de Orta, Colloquies on the Simples & Drugs of India (London, 1913), 9, p. 60

3 Valentina Pugliano, ‘Specimen Lists: Artisanal Writing or Natural Historical Paperwork?’ Isis, 103 (2012), 716--26.

4 Markham trans., Colloquies, 40, p. 329.

5 Iona McCleery, ‘What is “colonial” about medieval colonial medicine? Iberian Health in Global Context’, Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies, 7.2 (2015), 151--75.