Kusukawa Sachiko
Trinity College, Cambridge, England, UK.
Early Sci Med. 2009;14(4):445-75. doi: 10.1163/157338209x433462.
This paper examines the inter-relationship between image, text and object in the Codex Kentmanus, which is one of the earliest records of the plants in the botanical garden at Padua, studied by Johannes Kentmann (1518-77). The manuscript shows that "observation" for Kentmann involved a gradual process of assimilating knowledge from other physicians, apothecaries, and books in order to make the plants which were originally encountered at a specific time and place into a more generalised object of study for learned physicians.
本文考察了《肯特曼努斯抄本》中图像、文本与实物之间的相互关系，该抄本是帕多瓦植物园植物的最早记录之一，由约翰内斯·肯特曼（1518 - 1577）研究。这份手稿表明，对肯特曼来说，“观察”涉及一个从其他医生、药剂师和书籍中吸收知识的渐进过程，以便将最初在特定时间和地点遇到的植物变成博学医生更具普遍性的研究对象。
