Ginseng specimen
Date
1713
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
Creator - Organisation
The Royal Society, Publisher
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Material
Technique
Subject
Content object
Description
Chinese ginseng specimen, Panax notoginseng, from the Guangdong province, showing its roots, stalk and leaves, with a detail view [left as viewed] of a fifteen-year-old root.
Illustration to ‘XXV. The description of a tartarian plant, call'd gin-seng; with an account of its virtues. In a letter from Father Jartoux, to the Procurator General of the Missions of India and China. Taken from the tenth volume of letters of the Missionary Jesuits, printed in Paris in octavo, 1713’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 28, issue 337 (1713).
Father Pierre Jartoux (1669-1720), a Jesuit missionary stationed in Beijing, was not a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Illustration to ‘XXV. The description of a tartarian plant, call'd gin-seng; with an account of its virtues. In a letter from Father Jartoux, to the Procurator General of the Missions of India and China. Taken from the tenth volume of letters of the Missionary Jesuits, printed in Paris in octavo, 1713’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 28, issue 337 (1713).
Father Pierre Jartoux (1669-1720), a Jesuit missionary stationed in Beijing, was not a Fellow of the Royal Society.
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