Epistemic Practices and Plant Classification in Premodern European Botanical Knowledge
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artisanal technology studies
botanical historiography
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chymical experimentation
early modern science
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historical plant classification methods
natural history collections
plant specimen authentication
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- ISBN 9781041178873
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 10 Jun 2026
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
