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  Alfredo de Mello: Garcia de Orta
In 1563, this illustrious doctor, old-time professor of the University of Lisbon, Garcia de Orta gave to print a notorious text, where the purpose of the drugs and medicinal applications of India confront two models of knowledge: the old established texts, and the experimental.
Brianda was a relative of Garcia and on account of this, they required a special license to get married, as was revealed by Catarina while she was being tortured by the Inquisitors.
Various Ortas and Solis were imprisoned, and the great Garcia de Orta, twelve years after his death, was disinterred by the inquisitors, who could not rest until his bones were rendered to ashes..
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 GARCIA DE ORTA
Goa Auto da Fe In 1563, this illustrious doctor, old-time professor of the University of Lisbon, Garcia de Orta gave to print a notorious text, where the purpose of the drugs and medicinal applications of India confront two models of knowledge: the old established texts, and the experimental.
He was born in Castelo de Vide, nd in 1525, was already a doctor, having studied in Salamanca.
Brianda was a relative of Garcia and on account of this, they required a special licence to get married, as was revealed by Catarina while she was being tortured by the Inquisitors.
www.saudades.org /garciadeorta.html   (1748 words)

  
 Garcia de Orta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Garcia de Orta (1501 or 1502-1568) was a Renaissance Portuguese Jewish physician and naturalist.
Garcia himself died in 1568, apparently without having suffered seriously from this persecution, but his sister Catarina was arrested as a Jew in the same year and was burned at the stake for Judaism in Goa in 1569.
Garcia de Orta's work was soon recognized across Europe and translations in Latin (then the scientific lingua franca) and other languages were made.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Garcia_de_Orta   (840 words)

  
 Garcia da Orta
Martim Afonso de Souza é também amigo de Garcia da Orta.
E há aqui também algo de novo, que meu autor traz para a ciência de seu tempo, ao acreditar que o conhecimento deve ser difundido entre o maior número possível de pessoas derrubando as barreiras de um idioma das elites, indo ao encontro do idioma compreendido pelo maior número de pessoas de um mesmo povo.
De qualquer modo, o grande número de edições demonstra o interesse que o tema desperta e mesmo a influência, por via indireta, que meu autor tem na botânica médica desde o século XVI.
www.vidaslusofonas.pt /garcia_da_orta.htm   (2544 words)

  
 Pos-graduate Fellowship Opportunities
Garcia de Orta Hospital is a 550 bed, governmental central multispeciality hospital and it is attached to the Classic Lisbon University, for MBBS, MS and post-graduate purposes.
The post-graduate fellowship program of the Orthopedic and Traumatologic Department of Garcia de Orta Hospital is recognized by the International Center for Orthopaedic Education (ICOE), based in USA and is addressed to foreign and Portuguese senior orthopedic residents and young orthopedic surgeons.
It is intended to provide knowledge and experience to the fellow with other clinical entities and surgical techniques, in a different context than the one he is used to, and are based on the daily work side-by-side with the surgeons and residents of the Department.
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 The truth behind the legend: European doctors in pre-colonial India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-11)
Orta was fortunate to find a patron in Dom Fernao de Sousa, "of a noble family descended from a natural son of King Alfonso III by a very beautiful Moor, daughter of the Cadi of Faro" (Markham 1913, p.
Orta studied at the Spanish universities of Salamanca and Alcala de Vide from 1515 to 1525, qualified as a physician in 1526 and worked as a village doctor from 1526 to 1532.
Orta’s personal history as a hidden Jew who had to use Christianity as a mask for survival was probably responsible for creating a mindset that rejected the weight of authority in favour of direct evidence.
www.ias.ac.in /jbiosci/september1999/article2.htm   (7726 words)

  
 Garcia da Orta - Wikipédia
Garcia de Orta (Castelo de Vide, 1501 Goa, 1568).
Garcia de Orta faleceu em Goa em 1568 sem nunca ter tido directamente problemas com a Inquisição, apesar de esta ter estabelecido um tribunal na India em 1565.
Orta não só não receou que o seu gosto pela matéria médica e pela botânica pudesse levar a que fosse confundido com um boticário, como se viu obrigado a dispensar a tutela do próprio Dioscórides, ao tratar de drogas medicinais que o autor greco-romano na sua maioria desconhecia.
pt.wikipedia.org /wiki/Garcia_da_Orta   (1103 words)

  
 PERSONAJES DE LA ISTORIA SEFARADI (III)
Garcia de Orta viajo a todas las partes de India ansi ke a Indoneziaalaya i investigo diversos djeneros de kuras.
The doctor Nahmias de Castro famous in Portugal, was the doctor of King Christian of Denmark on leaving Portugal in the 17th century.
We thus come to the biography of Dr Garcia de Orta, born in 1500 in Castelo de Vide in Portugal, Studied in Salamanca and in Alcala de Henares.
www.sefarad.org /publication/lm/022/mediko.html   (720 words)

  
 HampiOnline.com, Hampi Vijayanagara Chroniclers, Garcia Da Orta
Garcia da Orta was born in Castelo de Vide, Portugal, the son of Fernando (Isaac) da Orta and Leonor Gomes around 1499 A.D. In 1523, he studied medicine at Salamanca and Alcalá de Henares before returning to Portugal.
Not much of his writings on Vijayanagara are available since he was a friend of Burhan Nizam Shah of Ahmednagar and did much of his trading and medicinal study in Goa itself which was then a Portuguese colony in India.
Garcia da Orta is also named as the father of European practise of Indian medicinal plants.
www.hampionline.com /history/garcia.php   (186 words)

  
 (GCR8WX) Let's Play! [Lisboa] by SUp3rFM & Cruella
Garcia de Orta foi um eminente médico português do século XVI que viveu na Índia durante 30 anos, onde estudou e classificou numerosas plantas asiáticas.
Garcia de Orta was an eminent XVI century doctor who lived in India for 30 years where he studied and classified numerous Asiatic plants.
Garcia da Orta Gardens presents, in landscaped areas, vegetation characteristic of various ecosystems considered representative of the areas of the origin of species, at the time of the Discoveries on a total of approx.2500m2.
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 Garcia da Orta (English Version)
1499?: Garcia da Orta is born in Castelo de Vide, Portugal, the son of Fernando (Isaac) da Orta and Leonor Gomes.
Garcia, for whom I am not yet even a twinkle in his eye, finishes his general education and then goes to Salamanca and Alcalá de Henares, Castile, where he studies medicine.
Whilst still at university, Garcia da Orta becomes very interested in the study of medicinal plants, of animals and minerals used for medicinal purposes or simply of those discoveries in the natural world which had never been documented.
www.vidaslusofonas.pt /garcia_da_horta2.htm   (3027 words)

  
 Patten 83 - Orta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-11)
Orta was a Portuguese physician who had studied medicine in Spain.
Orta's work provides information on almost all the major cultivated plants of South Asia.
Although he was primarily concerned with plants having medicinal use, he also includes other edible plants unknown in Europe, becoming the first to report on mangoes, mangosteens, and durians.
www.goldcanyon.com /Patten/html/83.html   (250 words)

  
 VaiDeRoda
Transcrevemos, adaptamos e interpretamos segundo a nossa forma de estar, de ser e de ver a música na generalidade e a música Portuguesa em particular."
Os "Vai de Roda" são um grupo do Porto, criado em 1978 e com três discos editados: "Vai de Roda", "Terreiro da Bruxas" e "Polas Ondas", este último que lhes rendeu o prémio "José Afonso" em 1997.
De facto, este álbum marca indiscutivelmente a maturidade do projecto de Tentúgal, contribuindo para o reconhecimento definitivo do grupo, tanto a nível nacional como internacional.
attambur.com /Grupos/vaiderodadir.htm   (207 words)

  
 GoaCentral.Com-Monuments around Panaji
This is a square piece of land with a central domed structure under which stood a bronze statue of Alfonso de Albuquerque, since moved to the state museum at Old Goa.
It used to be called the "Jardim de Garcia da Orta" after Garcia de Orta, a famous 16th century physician.
Garcia de Orta spent his entire life cataloguing indian herbs and produced a treatise on the comparative study of European and Indian medicine.
www.goacentral.com /Goamonuments/panaji.htm   (1045 words)

  
 Jornal de Notícias - Garcia de Orta com falta de lugares para estacionar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-11)
Numa via limitada por automóveis estacionados de um lado e outro, três condutores fazem inversão de marcha com dificuldade, enquanto outros tentam entrar num dos parques de estacionamento reservados aos funcionários do Hospital Garcia de Orta, em Almada.
O carro de João Paulo Santos está parado em segunda fila.
O responsável acrescenta que as "ambulâncias têm dificuldade em fazer manobras" dada a dificuldade de estacionamento.
jn.sapo.pt /2006/09/04/sul/garcia_orta_falta_lugares_para_estac.html   (393 words)

  
 The Galileo Project
Ficalho is definite that Orta was in Sousa's service and thinks he had been under his protection for some time, that perhaps the Sousa family financed his university education and arranged for the chair in Lisbon.
After his death at least one sister was burned in an auto-da-fe and Orta's remains were burned.
Ferreira de Mira, Historia da medicina portuguesa, pp.
galileo.rice.edu /Catalog/NewFiles/orta.html   (377 words)

  
 Referências
Garcia De Orta - Série Zoologica 15, no. 2: 21-36.
Observação Turística de Cetáceos, por: Rui Prieto e Mónica Silva.
Rastreio de cachalotes por satélite, por: Rui Prieto.
www.horta.uac.pt /species/Cetacea/Referencias.htm   (606 words)

  
 The Galileo Project
Acosta was one of the pioneers in studying the plants, especially in their pharmaceutical uses, of the orient.
He also wrote a Tractado de la yerbas, plantas, frutas y animales (of the East) that is lost.
I gather that this is primarily a panegyric.
galileo.rice.edu /Catalog/NewFiles/acosta_cri.html   (363 words)

  
 Garcia de Orta Gardens at EXPO98
South entry to the Garcia de Orta gardens.
Garcia de Orta was a portuguese natural philosopher, in the 16
He left Portugal quite young, perhaps escaping the anti-jew laws, and went to India and South East Asia (Malaca, in modern Malaysia, etc).
lrm.isr.ist.utl.pt /jsgm/albuns/expo98noite/gardens2.html   (56 words)

  
 Netherlandic Treasures - Early Scientific Works
This work is the Dutch version of his De stirpium historia, a national herbal devoted to species indigenous to the Flemish provinces.
In 1593 he was appointed to succeed Dodoens in the chair of botany at the University of Leiden, where he spent the rest of his life.
A celebrated astronomer and geometer, Huygens made his reputation with his telescope lens and with the improvements he made to the clock, being the first to apply the pendulum to the measurement of time.
www.lib.umich.edu /spec-coll/netreasures/science.html   (765 words)

  
 Portal da Saúde - Portal da Saúde
Conselho de MInistros aprova a 21 de Dezembro de 2006 alteração ao Decreto-Regulamentar n.º 76/2006 de 27 de Março.
Na reunião de 21 de Setembro de 2006, Conselho de Ministros aprova regulamentação da Lei n.º 46/2006, de 28 de Agosto.
Conselho de Ministros aprova Plano Nacional para a Promoção da Acessibilidade na sessão de 21 de Dezembro de 2006.
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 Orta Family Web Site
The early Orta family originated in Mexico and migrated to the Phoenix/Tucson Arizona area sometime during the early 1800's.
Carmen Stanis, Ivan and Virginia Santiago, and Manuel Orta.
Virginia Orta Santiago and her husband of 35 years Ivan taken February 13, 1988.
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 Chapter PATACA <i>to</i> PATECA of P by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary
De Candolle seems to have no doubt that the water-melon was cultivated in ancient Egypt, and believes it to have been introduced into the Graeco-Roman world about the beginning of our era; whilst.
The name pateca, looking to the existence of the same word in Spanish, we should have supposed to have been Portuguese long before the Portuguese establishment in India; yet the whole of what is said by Garcia de Orta is inconsistent with this.
Garcia tells him also that the Arabs and Persians call it batiec indi, i.e.
www.bibliomania.com /2/3/260/1283/20156/2.html   (802 words)

  
 Patten 83   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-11)
He landed at Goa in 1568 a few months after the death of Orta, and was appointed physician to the Royal Hospital of Cochin.
Although it is primarily a translation into Spanish of Orta's work, authorities have stated that Acosta was knowledgeable on this subject.
In his translation he clarifies Orta's text and adds to its usefulness.
www.asu.edu /lib/speccoll/patten/html/83b.html   (202 words)

  
 THE JEWISH RECIFE-MANHATTAN CONNECTION
He collects songs in ladino, which he is used to sing: "Avram avinu, padre querido, padre bendicho, luz de Israel" he pronounces clearly without understanding all the words.
His great-grandfather was the last rabbi in the family to preach in Portuguese.
Then a French pirate, Jacques de la Motte, rescued the passengers and took them to New Amsterdam (former name of New York) where there was a small settlement of the Dutch Indies Company in the island of Manhattan.
www.saudades.org /jewishrecife-manhattan.html   (735 words)

  
 Critical Care | Full text | Early identification of intensive care unit-acquired infections with daily monitoring of ...
The study was conducted in an eight-bed medico-surgical ICU of the Garcia de Orta Hospital, Almada, Portugal, which admits patients from all hospital departments as well as from other hospitals.
The Ethics Committee of Garcia de Orta Hospital approved the study design and informed consent was waived in view of the lack of need for additional blood sampling.
Vincent JL, de Mendonca A, Cantraine F, Moreno R, Takala J, Suter PM, Sprung CL, Colardyn F, Blecher S: Use of the SOFA score to assess the incidence of organ dysfunction/failure in intensive care units: results of a multicenter, prospective study.
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 WBCC Newsmail #502
Garcia da Orta taught his students the importance of studying the natural world, the value of observation, the value of using all the senses to delve into the new and the uncommon and, together with the intellect, to discover things that had never before been examined thoroughly or accurately.
Portugal honored Garcia da Orta on the circulating Bi-metallic 200 Escudos from 1991 to 2001.
These coins show Garcia da Orta holding a plant, the species I have not been able to discover.
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 Garcia D'Orta Hotel Castelo de Vide - Special Internet Rates at HotelClub
Estrada de Sao Vicente 7320-202 Castelo de Vide
Garcia D'Orta Hotel is located in the historical village of Castle of Vide.
The Ammaia Club of Golf of Marvao and the Museum of the City Roman of Ammaia are some of the area attractions here.
www.hotelclub.net /hotel.reservations/Garcia_DOrta_Hotel_Castelo_de_Vide.htm   (235 words)

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