Podcast

The Florentine Codex and the Herbal Tradition: Unknown Versus Known

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Alain Touwaide—historian of medicine, botany, and medicinal plants—compares the detailed account of natural history in the Florentine Codex and contemporary European herbal traditions. He suggests that they represent the opposition between unknown and known—a dynamic force that led to many discoveries in medicine through the centuries.