Defesa contra o Português Amatho

Overview & Synopsis

This book shows how religious and racial prejudice, in parternship with an oversized academic arrogance, were able to undermine sense of fairness even in fields pertaining to those sciences more apparently free form ideological or nationalistic motivations, as botany and pharmacology. Violently reacting against some polite comments made by portuguese physician Amato Lusitano, the italian well known botanist Mattioli showed how racial prejudice was still used as a scientific argumente. This book is also a good exemple of the importance of Humanist Latin as a tool even in the fields of science.