notcom.hypotheses.org/8617 a nice podcast on Flora Danica, a project led by Christoffer Basse Eriksen at Aarhus University (Danemark) - to enjoy #flora #histsci #histplants #plantstudies #planthumanities #18thcentury

The publication of ‘Flora Danica’ in 18th century Denmark — With Christoffer Basse Eriksen

Following our collaborative workshop, 'Bookish Bodies, Flowery Worlds: Expertise and Collaboration in Early Modern Natural Philosophy', held at Aarhus University, we are delighted to share the latest ...

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I have apprehended with sadness the passing of John Dixon Hunt, a great scholar who expanded the study of garden and lanscape, opening new important avenues of research. Here a memory by @dumbartonoaks.bsky.social #gardens #histsci #landscape #botany #dumbartonoaks www.doaks.org/newsletter/i...

In Memoriam | John Dixon Hunt

His leadership helped grow Studies in Landscape Architecture at Dumbarton Oaks to a more expansive, interdisciplinary, and theoretical analysis of gardens and landscapes.

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The Instructing Colonial Natural History Seminar Series is back and we have a stellar line up: @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social, 6 Oct; @cberiksen.bsky.social, 28 Oct; Jim Endersby, 25 Nov; and Ma. Mercedes G. Planta, 9 Dec. All seminars are on Zoom, 15-16 CET

New - and #OpenAccess - review! Botanical Icons: Critical Practices of Illustration in the Premodern Mediterranean. Andrew Griebeler. @uchicagopress.bsky.social, 2024. Reviewed by @fabribald.bsky.social for Renaissance Quarterly / @rsaorg.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

www.brepolsonline.net/content/book... fascinating new publication - a volume on images and institutions in the 17th and 18th centuries, edited by M. Jonker and K. Reinhart for @brepols.net with several things on plants, plant illustrations, and plant knowledge #planthistory

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Fascinating article by Alain Touwaide and Emanuela Appetiti on Mattioli's Taxonomical Troubles in his Medical Botany #histmed #plantstudies #botany #renaissance #taxonomy #materiamedica #mattioli

Taxonomical Trouble in 16th-Century Medical Botany. Pietro Andrea Mattioli on Dioscorides, De materia medica - Alain Touwaide, Emanuela Appetiti, 2026

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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📣There is still time to apply to either one of these cfp for next #RSA27 @rsaorg.bsky.social on #plantstudies🌿🌱🌳 The one is on #excrescences or bodies growing on/from/within plants #histsci - www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe... The second is on #CraftingNature #arthistory - www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...

link.springer.com/collections/... My special issue - Life as we don't know it - is taking shape on History and Philosophy fo the Life Sciences Journal --- more is to come soon! #plantstudies #plantlife #histsci #histphilo #lifescience #nature #buffon #candolle

Today's episode is one of my favorites among recent topics: a look at the formal French garden, and its surprisingly intricate relationship to philosophy under Louis XIV! (Also look out for a fabulous pun about him.) www.historyofphilosophy.net/french-garden #philsky #gardens #philosophy #podcast

Nasturtium in Le règne végétal, 1870.

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

Snowdrops are native to Eastern Europe and had been associated with Candlemas (2nd February) as their flowering period coincides with the feast of the purification of the Virgin after childbirth. In 1596, London based botanist Gerard is the first one to mention them growing on English soil.

📣CFP HSS-ESHS 2026 joint conference - 13-16 July 2026 in Edinburg. Here attached, a proposal for a panel on "Artisans, Practitioners, and Instruments in the Making of Premodern Science" - share or send me an abstract #practices #labor #artisans #artifacts #instruments #hss Image from Agostino Gallo

My essay on the relationship between plant intelligence (and its history) and ecology - a message to politicians! #plantstudies #plantintelligence #ecology #environmentalstudies #philo #histsci #ConEnvHist www.indiscreto.org/lintelligenz...

L’intelligenza delle piante alla base di un cambiamento politico

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...

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Join us in Rome or online for a seminar on plant illustrations on 6 November! 🪴🌻🌿 Through images of mandrakes and ferns, @fabribald.bsky.social and I will be discussing issues in the role of images in early modern botany. www.biblhertz.it/events/43483...

The Role of Images in Early Modern Botany

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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Epistemic Practices and Plant Classification in Premodern European Botanical Knowledge: An Interdisciplinary Treatment Edited By @fabribald.bsky.social is now available in the new warehouse - www.routledge.com/Epistemic-Pr... The ebook is on sale for US $42.74

November 29th, I take part in this very promising seminar at ENS in Paris on the intersections of plant and cultural studies in the early modern time. #plantstudies #17thcentury #histsci #materialhistory I look very forward to this! I am in Paris from this Friday - happy to catch up with friends!

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

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

#Bluehistorians #Skystorians Happy to share this event, part of #ConEnvHist project on the environment♻️and botany🌿 In Milan, Oct13 with some great colleagues on practices and theories of knowledge. Attendance is free @sergiooe.bsky.social #environmentalstudies #environment #histsci #agriculture

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... a nice and attentive report of the symposium organized in Pisa for the 500th anniversary of #AndreaCesalpino #ortobotanico #Pisa by Lorenzo Peruzzi and his team #histbotany #histsci #philsci #botany #renaissancestudies

REPORT FROM THE INTERNATIONAL ANDREA CESALPINO SYSTEMATICS SYMPOSIUM – IACS500, PISA, ITALY, 5–6 JUNE 2025

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Vino🍷🍇: Agriculture, Medicine, Symbolism and Conviviality. For a Natural History of Wine in the Renaissance 🍾 My cfp for a panel at #RSA26 #RsaSanFrancisco #RSA2026 #HIstsci #histmed #histagriculture #arthistory Apply if interested - send me a short abstract www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...

A less-known pharmacist is Bartolomeo Maranta - a former student of Luca Ghini - who worked with plants in Naples (in a garden of Giovan Vincenzo Pinelli) and published a fascinating Method on studying plants in 1559 --- several years before Cesalpino, but also Pena and Lobel #plantstudies #histsci

Let me also add that the volume is now available in paperback - www.bloomsbury.com/uk/andrea-ce...

Andrea Cesalpino and Renaissance Aristotelianism

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

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📣 #bluestorians #skystorians Happy to share that on October 6th, 2025, I discuss my book on #Descartes with Dan Garber and Deb Brown - who are 2 of the major Cartesian scholars of our time - chair: Igor Agostini #17thcent #earlymodern #histphilo #individualbodies link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Next Early Modern Lab at NTU - organized by Dana Jalobeanu - features Gideon Manning on visualizing nature with text and image #visualizingknowledge #visualizingscience #illustrations #17thcentury

Next week, we welcome @stellasandford.bsky.social ‬(Kingston University) in our ROTO Lecture Series. She will reflect on John Dupré's #PhilBio and talk about "promiscuous realism" and plant individuality. Just register here to participate 👉 rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture... #HPBio #PhilSci

www.ortomuseobot.sma.unipi.it/iacs500-symp... 📣 Happy to be a keynote at the 500th anniversary of #AndreaCesalpino in Pisa -🌿I will provide some historical insights at a very nice conference on botanical systematics #histsci #plantstudies🌳 the history of plants matters in today's science🌱 Program⤵️

IACS500 Symposium - Orto e Museo Botanico

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 ...

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Epistemic Practices and Plant Classification in Premodern European Botanical Knowledge: An Interdisciplinary Treatment is a new book edited by @fabribald.bsky.social www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

Epistemic Practices and Plant Classification in Premodern European Botanical Knowledge

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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Video recording of The Vegetal Turn: A conversation with Marcello Di Paola held Jan 30, 2025. Sponsored by @theplantinitiative.bsky.social This was an online conversation with plant philosopher Marcello Di Paola about his new book on plants in the environmental humanities. youtu.be/sa5DXb1S6SM

The Vegetal Turn: a conversation with Marcello Di Paola

YouTube video by The Plant Initiative

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