SACHI Annual Event 2021: Indian Botanical Medicines in Early Modern Europe

Date:     Sunday, November - 14, 2021
Time:    2 p.m. PST
Location:   Samsung Hall, Asian Art Museum.
200 Larkin Street, San Francisco, CA

Biomedical researcher Annamma Spudich shares her research into the “Hortus Indicus Malabaricus” (“The Garden of Malabar”). Get a unique view into the contributions of Indian scholarship to early modern science in this illustrated presentation focusing on a 17th-century Dutch treatise on Indian botanical medicines.

Image Credit: Frontispiece, Jardin de Lorixa (1690)
Volume 1 (of 14), Paper and pigments. Artist unknown
Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris