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The World of Plants in Renaissance Tuscany - Medicine and Botany (Paperback)
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The World of Plants in Renaissance Tuscany - Medicine and Botany (Paperback)
Series: The History of Medicine in Context
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In the sixteenth century medicinal plants, which until then had
been the monopoly of apothecaries, became a major topic of
investigation in the medical faculties of Italian universities,
where they were observed, transplanted, and grown by learned
physicians both in the wild and in the newly founded botanical
gardens. Tuscany was one of the main European centres in this new
field of inquiry, thanks largely to the Medici Grand Dukes, who
patronised and sustained research and teaching, whilst also taking
a significant personal interest in plants and medicine. This is the
first major reconstruction of this new world of plants in
sixteenth-century Tuscany. Focusing primarily on the medical use of
plants, this book also shows how plants, while maintaining their
importance in therapy, began to be considered and studied for
themselves, and how this new understanding prepared the groundwork
for the science of botany. More broadly this study explores how the
New World's flora impacted on existing botanical knowledge and how
this led to the first attempts at taxonomy.
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