Pesquisadora titular, Museu de Astronomia e Ciências Afins. Rio de Janeiro - RJ - Brasil
Hist Cienc Saude Manguinhos. 2022 Jan-Mar;29(1):41-59. doi: 10.1590/S0104-59702022000100003.
From records on plants and herbs made by doctors, healers, missionaries, and colonial administrators in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this article explores ways of constructing knowledge about flora using the concept of circulation proposed by Kapil Raj. The distinct experiences and documents analyzed demonstrate the process of observing, collecting, systematizing, and circulating knowledge, and the influence of natural history and the Hippocratic tradition on the classification of herbs and plants and on the descriptions adopted in these texts. From printed books to notes scattered through travel diaries, usefulness of these species to humankind was the element valued by those who directly observed the potential of American plants, fruits, and herbs.
本文通过 17 世纪和 18 世纪医生、治疗师、传教士和殖民行政人员关于植物和草药的记录，探讨了如何利用卡皮尔·拉杰（Kapil Raj）提出的“流通”概念来构建有关植物群的知识。通过分析这些独特的经验和文献，本文展示了观察、收集、系统化和传播知识的过程，以及自然历史和希波克拉底传统对草药分类以及这些文本中所采用描述的影响。从印刷书籍到旅行日记中的零散笔记，这些物种对人类的有用性是那些直接观察美洲植物、水果和草药潜力的人所重视的。
