I HAVE NEVER met Prof K S Manilal. In fact, I heard about him only about 10 years ago and hardly imagined how his work would affect my life. Like most Malayalis I had been blissfully unaware of the 17th-century magnum opus 'Hortus Malabaricus' (Garden of Malabar) which the then Dutch Governor of Kochi, Henrik Van Rheede, had compiled in Latin about the medicinal plants of Kerala.
Comprising 12 volumes (each volume coming to about 500 pages) with wonderfully accurate drawings of the 742 plants that any botanist today would be proud of, these books were accessible to only those who knew Latin.
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هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة January 02, 2025 من The New Indian Express Thiruvananthapuram.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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