De l’écume au sperme

• Published in: Médiévales
• Main Author: Buquet, Thierry
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: French
• Published: Presses universitaires de Vincennes 2021
• Subjects: ambre gris; baleine; cachalot; histoire naturelle; médecine; transmission des savoirs; Ambergris; knowledge transmission; medicine; natural history; sperm whale; whale; hist; lang; Baleine; Sperm whale
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/medievales/11290

From Foam to Sperm. Medieval Hypotheses on the Origins of AmbergrisThe 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...