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Manipulating Flora

@manipulatingflora.bsky.social

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Research group working on 🌿plants🌴 in early modern natural philosophy - Studies of🌾Plant Physiology, Envinroment, Medicine, Anatomy and Society #histsci #envhist #histplants #plantstudies

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Manipulating Flora @manipulatingflora.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

A new fascinating publication from Quentin Hiernaux on plants in the history of philosophy #plantstudies #plantphilosophy #plantlife #histphilo #histsci www.vrin.fr/livre/978271...

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Manipulating Flora @manipulatingflora.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

As a part of the EU-funded project led by @fabribald.bsky.social , this is a first event - Constructing the Environment #ConEnvHist on Monday 13th afternoon in Milan - speaking about practices and theories in premodern studies of nature #nature #histsci #histbotany #environment #environmentalhistory

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Manipulating Flora @manipulatingflora.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Sumana Roy latest reflection on how the vegetal turn has influenced hindi cinema #vegetallife #plantstudies #vegetation

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Manipulating Flora @manipulatingflora.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Fascinating programme for the Colonial Natural History Seminar Series of Spring 2025

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Manipulating Flora @manipulatingflora.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

a nice event on February 21st (online at 5pm - Italy time), organized by Anatole Tchikine and Florike Egmond this is a new project,🌻Early Modern Botanical Knowledge Production🌱 in this event, Dr. Sabrina Minuzzi discusses "Materia medica between past and future" #Earlymodernbotanicalknowledge

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Manipulating Flora @manipulatingflora.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

This Thursday, Feb.8, @fabribald.bsky.social presents a paper on the 🌱mind of plants 🧠🌿 in pre modern times at CNR in Rome (the event is online) Focus will be on Gassendi, Bacon, La Brosse and Margaret Cavendish #vegscilif #manipulatingflora #plantcognition #plantsensation #plantbehaviour #histsci

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Manipulating Flora @manipulatingflora.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

This Thursday, Feb.8, @fabribald.bsky.social presents a paper on the 🌱mind of plants 🧠🌿 in pre modern times at CNR in Rome (the event is online) I will discuss Gassendi, Bacon, La Beosse and Margaret Cavendish #vegscilif #manipulatingflora #plantcognition #plantsensation #plantbehaviour #histsci

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Manipulating Flora @manipulatingflora.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

At the presentation of Antonio Clericuzio's recent book Uomo e natura (Rome, 2022) at #MuseoGalileo (Florence) organized by the Italian Society of the History of Science #histsci #history #book #histbio #histphilo

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Manipulating Flora @manipulatingflora.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

Ulisse Aldrovandi's tavole acquarellate - 🎍cactus🌵 #vegscilif #manipulatinflora #histsci #histbio #plantstudies #plantscience #vegetate #Aldrovandi

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Manipulating Flora @manipulatingflora.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

Gingko Biloba 🍂

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Manipulating Flora @manipulatingflora.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

📣New publication📣 New volume on Andrea Cesalpino and Renaissance Aristotelianism just out for Bloomsbury. Contributors study Cesalpino's epistemology, demonology, cosmology, philosophy of nature, botany, mineralogy, medicine and pharmacology. #histsci #histmed #vegscilif @fabribald.bsky.social

https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/andrea-cesalpino-and-renaissance-aristotelianism-9781350325142/

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Manipulating Flora @manipulatingflora.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

📣New publication-🌱Plants and medicine in the 16th and 17th centuries🌾 www.degruyter.com/document/doi... With a foreword by Karen Reeds, and contributions on Rocabonella Herbal, Mediterranean Botany, plants roots and the underground, Leiden hortus botanicus, plant-animal analogy and more #vegscilif

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Manipulating Flora @manipulatingflora.bsky.social · 11/09/2023

#VegetativePowers #HistScience #histphilo #historysoul 🌳#vegetation ☘️The volume analyzes philosophical accounts on vegetative and vegetation from the past and outlines a crucial section of early modern sciences of life! link.springer.com/book/10.1007... @fabribald.bsky.social

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