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The study of botany has traditionally been ancillary to medical
knowledge. Yet, several issues arise while an autonomous discipline
of plants develop in the early modern time. This volume aims to
discuss a few of these aspects of the relationship between the
study of plants and medicine in the early modern time (from the
late 15th century to the 18th century). Dealing with the
methodologies of transmitting botanical knowledge, the practices
with plants, and the attempts to reinforce or rebuke medical
traditions, the contributions to this volume focus on the material
study of plants in the period of the scientific revolution. The
authors focus on the study of herbaria, on manuscripts and materia
medica, on the reception of ancient texts, such as Dioscorides' or
Pliny's natural history, on the trajectories of exotic plants and
the attempts to accommodate them within Galenic system, on the
experimentation with plants in anatomical medicine or in the
development of new pharmacology. The volume, intented for scholars
in early modern history of science, medicine, botany, and also
intellectual and material history, will be an important addition in
the scholarship.
The volume analyzes the natural philosophical accounts and debates
concerning the vegetative powers, namely nutrition, growth, and
reproduction. While principally focusing on the early modern
approaches to the lower functions of the soul, readers will
discover the roots of these approaches back to the Ancient times,
as the volume highlights the role of three strands that help shape
the study of life in the Medieval and early modern natural
philosophies. From late antiquity to the early modern period, the
vegetative soul and its cognate concepts have played a substantial
role in specifying life, living functions, and living bodies,
sometimes blurring the line between living and non-living nature,
and, at other moments, resulting in a strong restriction of life to
a mechanical system of operations and powers. Unearthing the
history of the vegetative soul as a shrub of interconnected
concepts, the 24 contributions of the volume fill a crucial gap in
scholarship, ultimately outlining the importance of vegetal
processes of incessant proliferation, generation, and organic
growth as the roots of life in natural philosophical
interpretations.
The volume analyzes the natural philosophical accounts and debates
concerning the vegetative powers, namely nutrition, growth, and
reproduction. While principally focusing on the early modern
approaches to the lower functions of the soul, readers will
discover the roots of these approaches back to the Ancient times,
as the volume highlights the role of three strands that help shape
the study of life in the Medieval and early modern natural
philosophies. From late antiquity to the early modern period, the
vegetative soul and its cognate concepts have played a substantial
role in specifying life, living functions, and living bodies,
sometimes blurring the line between living and non-living nature,
and, at other moments, resulting in a strong restriction of life to
a mechanical system of operations and powers. Unearthing the
history of the vegetative soul as a shrub of interconnected
concepts, the 24 contributions of the volume fill a crucial gap in
scholarship, ultimately outlining the importance of vegetal
processes of incessant proliferation, generation, and organic
growth as the roots of life in natural philosophical
interpretations.
Shedding new light on the understudied Italian Renaissance scholar,
Andrea Cesalpino, and the diverse fields he wrote on, this volume
covers the multiple traditions that characterize his complex
natural philosophy and medical theories, taking in epistemology,
demonology, mineralogy, and botany. By moving beyond the
established influence of Aristotle’s texts on his work, Andrea
Cesalpino and Renaissance Aristotelianism reflects the rich
influences of Platonism, alchemy, Galenism, and Hippocratic ideas.
Cesalpino’s relation to the new sciences of the 16th century are
traced through his direct influences, on cosmology, botany, and
medicine. In combining Cesalpino’s reception of these traditions
alongside his connections to early modern science, this book
provides a vital case study of Renaissance Aristotelianism.
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