De l’écume au sperme : Hypothèses médiévales sur l’ambre de baleine

• Main Author: Buquet, Thierry
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: French
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: médecine; baleine; ambre gris; cachalot; histoire naturelle; transmission des savoirs; medicine; whale; Ambergris; knowledge transmission; natural history; sperm whale; hist; relig; Baleine; Sperm whale
• Online Access: http://www.cairn.info/article.php?ID_ARTICLE=MEDIE_080_0099

The origin of ambergris has been debated for a long time, from the Middle Ages to modern times. The purpose of this paper is to study the influence of Arabic scholarship on knowledge about ambergris in the medieval West, particularly as transmitted by the medical literature produced in the Salerno s...