Talk:1715 in science

Reason for removing entry about ginseng
I removed the following entry:
 * Ginseng, first used by Native Americans, is discovered by a Jesuit missionary in Canada.

for the following reasons:


 * 1) In 1715 Joseph-François Lafitau, (the Jesuit missionary) only read about Chinese ginseng.
 * 2) His hunt for American ginseng, a very similar plant, only succeeded in 1716.
 * 3) He was not the first to send ginseng to France. His contribution was that he said that the Chinese and American varieties of ginseng were the same and that American ginseng was used for therapeutic purposes by Native Americans; he was also the first to conclude that American ginseng could be used instead of the Chinese variety.

For references, see fr:Joseph François Lafitau. JmCor (talk) 18:03, 16 February 2013 (UTC)