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

Wrapping the presentation #Bacci #histsci #histplants #16thcentury #rsa26 @renaissancesociety.bsky.social #rsaSanFran26 #wine #vino #plantstudies #envhist #conenvhist

My special issue on gardens and plants as laboratories of premodern science is out on @royalsocietypublishing.org #notesandrecords #nrrs #histplants #histsci #vegscilif #envhist with articles by me, Luzzini on minerals, @johedesan.bsky.social on Guy de La Brosse, Jalobeanu on Bacon, and Benharrech🌱

book launch of my🌿"Filosofia e scienza delle piante nel Seicento"🌱- in Rome at La Sapienza, with the participation of Riccardo Pozzo - on November 13, at 2,15 pm (CET)

I am very happy for this - I will present a paper on #plantsandmetaphysics #histsci #plantstudies #histplants 🌳

The event is this October 29th #plantstudies #histplants

#ConEnvHist

Today: Seminar in Theoretical Philosophy at UniFi on #plantstudies in early modern natural philosophy - mainly, discussing 2 alternatives to Aristotelianism: plant-machines and plant-intelligence
Tomorrow: 500-year celebration for Andrea #Cesalpino with a keynote
#histsci #histplants #botany

Hot off the press, my latest volume on Epistemic Practices and Knowledge of Plants in Pre-modern European studies #histsci #histplants #histbotany #17thcentury #earlymodern @amsterdamupress.bsky.social
#scientiaestudies
Just in time to bring copies to #rsa25 #rsaBoston

www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

Back to the Future: Roots of Ecology, Environmental Studies and Plant Ethics in Seventeenth-Century Plant Studies | Center for the Study of World Religions

My blog on🌿 #thinkingwithplantsandfungi 🍄@harvard.edu on #17th-cent #plantphilo as roots of contemporary science🌳 - I challenge the idea of #histsci #histplants as inadequate to contemporary and future issues. On the contrary, it offers a valuable perspective
cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/2024/12...

@warburginstitute.bsky.social 🌵Opuntiae ficus-indica from the paper museum of Cassiano Dal Pozzo, that is, Federico Cesi's Flora manuscripts. This reveals the attention to cacti within the Accademia de' Lincei! #histplants #opuntiae #plantstudies #histsci #bluebotany #17thcenturybotany 🌵

From my yesterday visit at @linneansociety.bsky.social in London #histplants #plantstudies #histsci

Nature and plants, natural philosophy and plant studies are intertwined topics. #histsci #histplants #histphilo #17thcentury #roots #mushrooms #plants

any suggestions about the rowling pear in the 17th century? #histsci #histplants #botany

#histsci #histplants #botanhist Next Monday, December 4, at 5pm (Italy/Berlin/Paris time), with Stella Sandford (Kingston University), who presents a paper entitled: 🌴Plants as Models: Vegetative Reproduction in Buffon's General Theory of Reproduction #vegscilif #manipulatingflora #plantstudies

getting ready! #vegscilif #histsci #microscopy🔬🌿 #botany #histplants #histbio #vegetation #manipulatingflora #cafoscari #mariecurieactions #fertileuncertainties #uselessmicroscopes #ambiguousexperiments

A very recent article in @royalsocietypublishing on the importance of #UlisseAldrovandi herbarium for understanding the changes in #plants and #environment #histsci #plantstudies #histplants #herbaria

See: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

See also: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Banana plant growing in a pot.
[Kentmann Codex, fol. 81(100v).] #vegscilif #manipulatingflora #plantrenaissance #histsci #histillustrations #histplants #lifescience #histbio #banana🍌