Epistemic Practices and Plant Classification in Premodern European Botanical Knowledge

An Interdisciplinary Treatment

Buch | Hardcover

338 Seiten

2025
Amsterdam University Press (Verlag)
978-94-6372-807-2 (ISBN)

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This volume aims to uncover the diverse approach to plants in the Renaissance and seventeenth century that paved the way for a definition of botany as a fully-fledged discipline. Its scope expands beyond the natural historical interest in collections and the fabrication of materia medica: moving from Varchi, Matthioli and Bauhin to Locke, Pinelli, and Linnaeus, among others, the contributions collected here connect practical and theoretical features, dealing with the challenges that characterized any involvement with plants. The authors focus on the linguistic shortcomings, problems in authenticating specimens, and efforts to establish new botanical geographies to favour trades, as well as the pursuits of new methodologies, artisanal technologies, and chymical experiments with plants. Botany thus emerges as a suitable discipline to disclose the complexities and challenges of early modern science in general.

Fabrizio Baldassarri is research fellow in the history of science at University of Rome 3. His research focuses on pre-modern plant studies and environmental history. His publications include, Andrea Cesalpino and Renaissance Aristotelianism (2023), René Descartes’s Natural Philosophy and Particular Bodies(2024), and Filosofia e scienza delle piante nel Seicento (2024). He coordinates ManipulatingFlora.

1. The Epistemic Lightness of Botany: An Introduction - Fabrizio Baldassarri, Plant Naming and Classification: Translation, Trade Networks and Geographies of Knowledge, 2. Naming Trees in 15th-Century Herbals: Translations and Bilingualism in Botanical Vocabulary - Alice Laforet, 3. Benedetto Varchi's Inventario d'herbe: A Humanist Glossary from the 1540s—Text and Commentary - Dario Brancato and Iolanda Ventura, 4. Botany and Diplomacy: Pietro Andrea Mattioli and his Flemish Correspondents in Constantinople (1557-1568) - Luca Ciancio, 5. Peregrine Empires: The 'Fruitful Neighbourhood and Great Trade' of Leonhart Rauwolf's Plant Collecting - Maria M. Carri.n and Violeta Ruiz Espigares, 6. Biblio-Botany in pre-Linnaean Sweden: user Traces in Arvid Månsson's Örta-book - Anna Svensson, Classification and Method: Epistemic Practices, Material, Visual and Technological Knowledge, 7. Shapes of Knowledge: Images and the Identification of Exotic Plants by European Naturalists in the Sixteenth Century - Florike Egmond, 8. Patterns of Growth: Hieronymus Boch's Treatment of Plants and his Theophrastian Classification - Brenton Wells, 9. On the Path to Classification: The Method for Grouping Plants in the Late Renaissance (1570-1600) - Philippe Selosse, 10. Experiments with Resurrections: The Palingenesis of Plants in Early Modern England - Antonio Clericuzio, 11. Between Aristotelianism and Artisanal Technology: Pinelli's Botanical Studies - Stefano Gulizia.

Erscheinungsdatum	20.03.2025
Reihe/Serie	Scientiae Studies
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	790 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Botanik
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	94-6372-807-4 / 9463728074
ISBN-13	978-94-6372-807-2 / 9789463728072
Zustand	Neuware