Plants in 16th and 17th Century : : Botany between Medicine and Science / / ed. by Fabrizio Baldassarri.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Medical Traditions : The Written Memory of World Medicine ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XIII, 263 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- Foreword
- Introduction: The World of Plants in Premodern Medical Knowledge
- A More Modern Order: Virtual Collaboration in the Roccabonella Herbal
- Mediterranean Botany. Making Cross-Cultural Knowledge about Materia Medica in the Sixteenth Century
- A Bridge to the Underworld? An Explanation of the Act of Digging up Plant Roots in Early Modern Medical Fictions
- Not just a Garden of Simples: Arranging the Growing Floristic Diversity in the Leiden Botanical Garden (1594–1740)
- From the Analogy with Animals to the Anatomy of Plants in Medicine: The Physiology of Living Processes from Harvey to Malpighi
- Opium Taking: Blurring Experimentation and Pharmaceutical Theories
- The Accommodation of New World Plants in Early Modern Pharmacology: The Case of Cinchona Bark and the Challenges to Seventeenth-Century Galenism
- Knots in a Web: Botany, Materia Medica, and South Asian Languages in the Publication of Paul Hermann’s Ceylon-Herbaria (ca. 1690–1770)
- Bibliography
- Index