La convergencia de botánica, medicina natural y lingüística en la "Flora de Filipinas": ediciones, fuentes y trascendencia

Abstract

This article proposes a historiographic approach to the Flora of the Philippines of the Augustinian missionary Manuel Blanco, a treatise in which botany, natural medicine and linguistics necessarily converge due to the specificities of the historical context. A journey through the aspects of greatest incidence in these coordinates in the scientific activity and an approach to the different editions of the Flora, its bibliographic sources and its projection will allow us to visualize how Manuel Blanco made possible the emergence of botanical science in the Philippines, amalgamating, throughout his long career, the traditional indigenous medicine with the advances of European botany, with the essential support of the missionary lexicographical tradition.