Works and Images Cited

 Works

D'Cuhna, Noel. “[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: Printing in Goa: Back to the Future .” The Mail Archive, 17 Mar. 2009, https://www.mail-archive.com/goanet-news@lists.goanet.org/msg01331.html.

Fontes da Costa, Palmira. “Geographical Expansion and the Reconfiguration of Medical Authority: Garcia De Orta’s Colloquies on the Simples and Drugs of India (1563).” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, vol. 43, no. 1, Mar. 2012, pp. 74–81., https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2011.09.015.

Kakar, Bhavna. “Print Making: Story and History.” Art Concerns, 2007, https://web.archive.org/web/20101015225613/http://www.artconcerns.net/2007jan1/html/essay_Printmaking1.htm.Naik, Pratap. “Goanet  .” Goanet, 4 Sept. 2006, https://www.mail-archive.com/goanet@lists.goanet.org/. 

Suarez, Michael Felix, and H. R. Woudhuysen. “The Indian Subcontinent, the Technologies of Print.” The Book: A Global History, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2013. 

Verghese, Babu K. “From Palm Trees to the Printed Word.” The Hindu : Magazine / Focus : From Palm Leaves to the Printed Word, 1 Apr. 2007, https://web.archive.org/web/20080221082941/http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mag/2007/04/01/stories/2007040100080400.htm. 

 Images

Henriques, Henrique. “Thambiran Vanakkam (Doctrina Christam En Lingua Malauar Tamul).” Wikipedia, 8 Jan. 2023, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thambiran_Vanakkam. Accessed 20 Mar. 2023.

Da Orta, Garcia. “Colloquies on the Simples & Drugs of India / by Garcia Da Orta.” Wellcome Collection, 1913, https://wellcomecollection.org/works/zcrmcdxr/items?canvas=9.

Stephens, Fr. Thomas. “Krista Purana.” Wikipedia, 2 Feb. 2022, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krista_Purana. Accessed 20 Mar. 2023.





 

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