One of the most important developments in the history of science from the early seventeenth until the late eighteenth century was the foundation of institutions for collaborative research and the publ...

In this contribution we analyse De materia medica by Dioscorides (1st cent. A.D.), which is the largest treatise on the natural substances used in medicine comp...

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Le piante non sono sfondo, ma protagoniste della vita sulla Terra. Questo saggio ripercorre la lunga storia di un pensiero ecologico che mette al centro la relazione tra i viventi, a partire dall’inte...

This seminar brings together two experts on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century plants. Zooming in on the dilemma of visualizing plants (or not), and how images could become part of epistemic methods w...

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Shedding new light on the understudied Italian Renaissance scholar, Andrea Cesalpino, and the diverse fields he wrote on, this volume covers the multiple tradit…

For the five hundredth anniversary of his birth, the Botanical Garden and Museum of the University of Pisa is celebrating Andrea Cesalpino, the second praefectus of the garden and a key figure in the ...

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 bey...

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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 bey...

YouTube video by The Plant Initiative

Early modern central Africa comes to life in an extraordinary atlas of vivid watercolors and drawings that Italian Capuchin Franciscans, veterans of Kongo and Angola missions, composed between 1650 an...