28-04-2020, 02:10 PM
He has gone through about 8 different plants over the last 6 months or so, writing a paper on each plant. I haven't read them as I have made no attempt to identify the plants myself and so am not well-placed to give an opinion on the merits or otherwise of a given plant identification. On the language question I have already formed an opinion like others. It is conceivable that he may have made some useful identifications of or observations about plants even if his translation is flawed.
To make it clear I have put in considerable time, from all I can tell more than anyone ever, matching the large herbal plant drawings to the small botanical plant drawings. However this is completely different from matching those plants to plants in other manuscripts or in nature, which I have not done at all.
To make it clear I have put in considerable time, from all I can tell more than anyone ever, matching the large herbal plant drawings to the small botanical plant drawings. However this is completely different from matching those plants to plants in other manuscripts or in nature, which I have not done at all.