Le ginseng d’Amérique : un lien entre les deux Indes, entre curiosité et science

Following a suggestion by Father Jartoux, who introduced ginseng in Europe in 1713, the missionary Joseph-François Lafitau discovered in 1716 that there was also ginseng in New France. His discovery was initially contested by members of the French Academy of Sciences who claimed that it was not gins...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Andreas Motsch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institut du Monde Anglophone 2014-12-01
Series:Etudes Epistémè
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/episteme/331