(21-10-2019, 06:08 AM)ReneZ wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
(20-10-2019, 11:41 PM)-JKP- wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
I looked through Touwaide's credentials and academic history.
I had assumed he had a background in historical botany, so I couldn't understand why he described plant structures in such an unorthodox and unbotanical (and somewhat misleading) way. It turns out he has an interest in historical pharmacy but his early academic work was mainly in classics, oriental history and philology.
JKP, when you call his view unorthodox, unbotanical and misleading, and blame it on his background, then the necessary question becomes what is your background in order to make such a statement...
Rene, I didn't "blame" it on his background. I looked into his background to see why his botanical comments are so unbotanical and misleading. I wanted to understand why because I THOUGHT part of his academic training was in botany based on the many things I've seen on the Web with his name on it. I was mistaken. His academic background is mainly in history (his botanical interests are related to his professional activities in historical medicine). I shared what I found in case other people are interested.
My background in plants (which includes the indexing and categorization of more than 21,000 plants, 10 years working on a regional herbarium collection, and a lifelong passion for gardening) is good enough to recognize when someone doesn't know how to describe phytomorph structures properly and uses analogies that are misleading.