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ORTA (Garcia da). COLÓQUIOS dos Simples e drogas e cousas medicinais da India. Lisboa. 1963. - ORTA (Garcia da) COLÓQUIOS dos Simples e drogas e cousas medicinais da India . Reprodução fac-similada da edição impressa em Goa em 10 de Abril de 1563 [...]. Lisboa: Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, 1963. 1 v.; 220 mm. Facsimile reproduction of the original edition printed in Goa by Joannes de Endem on April 10, 1563, published by the Lisbon Academy of Sciences to commemorate the fourth centenary of the work. The Colloquies are considered the first scientific and medical book printed in India and the oldest European treatise on medicinal plants, drugs, and spices of the East, written in dialogue form, based on the author's direct observation and experience in Goa, with frequent criticism of classical authorities such as Dioscorides and Galen. The work was translated into Latin by Carolus Clusius in 1567 and served as the basis for numerous adaptations and commentaries in the main European languages, having a lasting influence on botany, pharmacology, and natural history during the Renaissance. The sixteenth-century original is extremely rare, so this reproduction, which faithfully respects the text and pagination of 1563, was for a long time the common way to access the first edition. (Estimated.) ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate