(Today, 01:07 AM)Aga Tentakulus Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Why should I pay attention to Barchius' writing? He lived 200 years after the VM was written. He was even more clueless than we are today.
Because he had the VMS on hand for decades, and had hundreds of books on medicine and herbalism and hundreds of living doctors and herbalists that he could consult without wading through Google Ads and Sponsored Listings. So if he says that the plants depicted in the VMS "have escaped observation here in Germany", it is strong evidence that the people who knew all about those "12000 plants" did not recognize them.
All the best, --stolfi