10-10-2016, 01:23 AM
JKP - exactly!
I guess I could return some of my posts to public view. I had thought the groupings made on pragmatic grounds; I just never thought that collective terms might be used... until recently.
So I've described the groups as "myrobalans group"; "Musaceae"; "Fish-catching plants"; "Paper-plants"; "Sesames" and so on.
One caveat: the content in many botanical folios does not appear to me to be medicinal, and in writing those posts I stressed the point.
However, the Cairo geniza and other works (such as the Great Antidotary) show that e.g. the marker-nut was actually used in medicine.
Thanks so much for the positive response.
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Sam G
Not a "suggestion"; one of the conclusions reached in the first phase of research (2008-2011), and about which I published first in 2008, treating folio 25v,with demonstrations for other folios published thereafter. They were later made mostly private; I got tired of the 'muggers'.
I had already come to the conclusion, too, by 2010 that the plants were not Mediterranean plants, though to convey the informing philosophy I called it "Theophrastan". Theophrastus' work was often mis-attributed to Aristotle in medieval Europe.
Since those detailed analyses were published (2008-2011) I notice that while still determinedly avoiding my work, name or results, a number of sites began reviving and widely publicising a previously ignored phrase from the Friedman group's work, and also the previously ignored paper by Wiart and Mazar.
Before that, both had been so well-"ignored" that I had no idea either existed when I conducted the research and analysis.
So it was independent confirmation for both, in a way.
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I guess I could return some of my posts to public view. I had thought the groupings made on pragmatic grounds; I just never thought that collective terms might be used... until recently.
So I've described the groups as "myrobalans group"; "Musaceae"; "Fish-catching plants"; "Paper-plants"; "Sesames" and so on.
One caveat: the content in many botanical folios does not appear to me to be medicinal, and in writing those posts I stressed the point.
However, the Cairo geniza and other works (such as the Great Antidotary) show that e.g. the marker-nut was actually used in medicine.
Thanks so much for the positive response.
________________
Sam G
Quote:(... you're suggesting that each individual page itself represents a distinct group...)
Not a "suggestion"; one of the conclusions reached in the first phase of research (2008-2011), and about which I published first in 2008, treating folio 25v,with demonstrations for other folios published thereafter. They were later made mostly private; I got tired of the 'muggers'.
I had already come to the conclusion, too, by 2010 that the plants were not Mediterranean plants, though to convey the informing philosophy I called it "Theophrastan". Theophrastus' work was often mis-attributed to Aristotle in medieval Europe.
Since those detailed analyses were published (2008-2011) I notice that while still determinedly avoiding my work, name or results, a number of sites began reviving and widely publicising a previously ignored phrase from the Friedman group's work, and also the previously ignored paper by Wiart and Mazar.
Before that, both had been so well-"ignored" that I had no idea either existed when I conducted the research and analysis.
So it was independent confirmation for both, in a way.
_