Plants in 16th and 17th Century: Botany between Medicine and Science

Published by De Gruyter 2023

Plants in 16th and 17th Century

Botany between Medicine and Science

Edited by: Fabrizio Baldassarri

Volume 8 in the series Medical Traditions

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110739930

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About this book

In the pre-modern times, while medicine was still relying on classical authorities on herbal remedies, a new engagement with the plant world emerged. This volume follows intertwined strands in the study of plants, examining newly introduced species that captured physicians' curiosity, expanded their therapeutic arsenal, and challenged their long-held medical theories. The development of herbaria, the creation of botanical gardens, and the inspection of plants contributed to a new understanding of the vegetal world. Increased attention to plants led to account for their therapeutic virtues, to test and produce new drugs, to recognize the physical properties of plants, and to develop a new plant science and medicine.

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Fabrizio Baldassarri, Ca' Foscari University Venice, Italy.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
List of Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	XIII
Foreword Karen Reeds Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Introduction: The World of Plants in Premodern Medical Knowledge Fabrizio Baldassarri Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
A More Modern Order: Virtual Collaboration in the Roccabonella Herbal Sarah R. Kyle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Mediterranean Botany. Making Cross-Cultural Knowledge about Materia Medica in the Sixteenth Century Barbara Di Gennaro Splendore Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
A Bridge to the Underworld? An Explanation of the Act of Digging up Plant Roots in Early Modern Medical Fictions Tassanee Alleau Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
Not just a Garden of Simples: Arranging the Growing Floristic Diversity in the Leiden Botanical Garden (1594–1740) Aleida Offerhaus, Anastasia Stefanaki and Tinde van Andel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
From the Analogy with Animals to the Anatomy of Plants in Medicine: The Physiology of Living Processes from Harvey to Malpighi Fabrizio Baldassarri Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
Opium Taking: Blurring Experimentation and Pharmaceutical Theories Edoardo Pierini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
The Accommodation of New World Plants in Early Modern Pharmacology: The Case of Cinchona Bark and the Challenges to Seventeenth-Century Galenism Federica Rotelli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Knots in a Web: Botany, Materia Medica, and South Asian Languages in the Publication of Paul Hermann’s Ceylon-Herbaria (ca. 1690–1770) Bettina Dietz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars of Early modern history of science, botany, books, and medicine, as well as intellectual and material history
Pages
- Front matter: 13
- Main content: 263
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 44
- Coloured Illustrations: 5
Keywords: Herbalism; Materia Medica; anatomy of plants; exotic plants and drogues

eBook

Published: July 4, 2023
ISBN: 9783110739930

Hardcover

Published: July 4, 2023
ISBN: 9783110739664