Sergio #Landucci has recently died. He has been professor of history of philosophy at the University of Firenze - having published on Hegel, Kant, Spinoza and Descartes, he is an intellectual reference for many historians and philosophers #histphilo #Descartes #Spinoza
Hyacinto Matthioli as depicted by Marcello Malpighi in his Anatome Plantarum (1675-1679) #histplants #histsci #arthistory #craftingnature #botany #elegance
The parallel between Marcello Malpighi's representation of the optical nerve and Gian Lorenzo Bernini's rumpled garment is striking. Cloth, textile, and texture are a clear reference in the work of seventeenth-century anatomists #textile #analogies #histsci #anatomy #texture
Tomorrow, April 10, 2026, at 12.00 pm (Italy time), there is an online seminar on #UlisseAldrovani, organized by the group working on the National Editions of Aldrovandi @m-azzolini.bsky.social, Matteo Martelli and Caterina Manco
Here the poster #nathistory #Renaissancestudies #histnat #histsci
Cartesio in Villa - The Cartesian Seminar at Villa Mirafiori continues with Simone Guidi's tali -- see below
On Thursday 9th, at 4 pm (Italy time)
#Descartes #Cartesianism #17thcentury #histphilo
There’s 30% off selected CUP Renaissance titles for SAA, which means you can get Hans Sloane’s Library Collection for *only* £66.50 (lol) : discount code is 106468 www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
A large piece of turf #nature #naturalhistory #histsci #arthistory #environment #envhist
#bluestorians #skystorians does anyone know about a Discourse made by La Hire le cadet at the Academie Royale des Sciences in 1710, April 30th? Thanks #plantstudies #botany #histsci
Today, we focused on various aspects, from D's philosophy, to its presence in today's political life, but language is also important in differentiating between animals and humans and we engaged with Descartes's correspondence, as I did in my chapter on animals: works.hcommons.org/records/k0qp...
Pier Antonio Micheli on some parasitic plants (1710), outlining that the practices of rustics (agricoltori) are sometimes ineffective, especially when not paired with theoretical knowledge of plants!
#envhist #histsci #agriculture #plants #histplants #botany
On marine plants - corals and fungi - in Klein 1747 work! #plantstudies #marineplants #zoophytes #histsci #fungi #corals
📣Next meeting - #DescartesLab
March 27, 2026 - at 3.00 pm (Italy time) / 9.00 am (NY city)
Discussion of Elodie Cassan's Le langage de la raison (Vrin, 2023) - the meeting is in English and online
#histphilo #17thcentury #ageofreason #Descartes #cartesianism - attendance is free
Noemi Di Tommaso on Redi and wine (Bacchus)
myself on Bacci's natural history of wine
Delia Moldovan on wine grafting in Soderini and Della Porta
Barbara Denicolò presenting a paper on wine in culinary recipes
Enrico Zucchi kindly chairing the session
at #RSA26 @rsaorg.bsky.social we discussed wine as an multilayered object, revealing a strong interconnection between human art and natural life, and finally interconnecting medicine, agronomy, botany, culinary, and antiquarianism #histsci #environment #envhist #Renaissance #wine #vino
as it happens, I made this in a haste and with several mistakes in the programme of the three panels... here the correct (I hope) version
#environmentalhistory #envhist #histagriculture #histsci #HSS26 #ESHS26 #17thcentury #histmath
Happy that my panels for #HSS26 #ESHS26 have been accepted. Here the lineup @hssgecc.bsky.social
I look forward to discussing instruments and tools in premodern science (agriculture, botany, mineralogy, navigation and mathematics) #histsci #instruments #agriculture #environment
Wrapping the presentation #Bacci #histsci #histplants #16thcentury #rsa26 @renaissancesociety.bsky.social #rsaSanFran26 #wine #vino #plantstudies #envhist #conenvhist
Vines - Vitis vinifera in Fuchs, Carrara Herbal and Topkapi Dioscorides... preparing my ppt on the natural history of wine in Bacci and sixteenth-century culture for @renaissancesociety.bsky.social #RSASanFran26 #RSA26 #histplant #plantstudies
A nice seminar organized in Venice/online - it remains difficult to discuss about mechanization and mechanical philosophy in the early modern period, and perhaps it is no more possible to do it with Descartes/Cartesian philo, but this is a great lineup of scholars #17thcentury #histsci #histphilo
On Monday, February 2nd, I present with Simone Guidi Rule 11 of the Regulae ad directionem ingenii - I discuss the second part of it, so to say, where #Descartes offers some insights on #enumeration --- which I have already presented in my talk on Rule 7
Here the program:
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a great discussion of Raphaele Andrault's book Le fer ou le feu (2024) - it's a great focus on pain as a crucial element to convey a philosophical investigation. #histsci #histmedicine are important in #histphilo #descartes
we presented it in @descarteslab.bsky.social #DescartesLab
the ascent of sap is thus an important case to see the role fo plant studies in physics and physiology - which I discussed in this article. Borelli inspired Marcello Malpighi's work at large #vegscilif
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In the second book of his De motu animalium, Giovanni Alfonso Borelli provides a strong mechanization of plant life, as in chapter 13 he discusses "On Plant Generation and Vegetation", somehow reducing plants to hydraulic machines - or a thermometer raising sap/liquors #plantlife #histsci
#bluestorians #SkyStorians #histsci #histphilo I discuss of Descartes's rule 7 - moving from this article and from the chapter on Descartes's natural philosophy - I believe that this rule reveals his methodological application of inductive knowledge to nature works.hcommons.org/records/1f48...