(06-01-2018, 05:59 PM)Koen Gh. wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view....
But perhaps this subject is indeed too complex for us to treat in this way.
If you want to help researchers save time and avoid redundancy, I think a good starting point is to post a graph of the herbal traditions. There are about six of maps that give a visual timeline of the major herbals, their dates, and their lineage. It's a bit like a family tree for plant books.
Minta Collins has probably done one (I haven't read her book but it has been spoken of favorably by forum members), and there are several others.
They sometimes differ in details, but they mostly agree on overall lineage and content. I have one of my own, but I'm still fiddling with it, working out some details that I felt were missing from other maps, but those details don't matter to new researchers, any of the major maps on the Net would provide a helpful reference. Ideally an herbal timeline/map would include links to the holding repository.