Fabrizio Baldassarri
@fabribald.bsky.social
RTT/Ass.Prof. Roma3- early modern natural philo - #DescartesLab - sciences, medicine, and plant philo🌱💭/plant studies🌿🔬MSCA Ca' Foscari/Indiana U - Warburg/I Tatti fellow / #ConEnvHIst - Seminar EM Plant Knowledge #VegSciLif #plantstudies
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15.1.2021-14.1.2024 Today is my last day as a MSCA fellow. I am thankful to CaFoscari and BloomingtonHPS IU that hosted me, to my supervisors and all people who have supported my research - I look forward to new adventures🎑 and to new research projects!🌿🌾🍍#vegscilif #histsci #manipulatingflora
CfP on artisans, practitioners, and instruments in the making of premodern science - I have two nice panels, but would be happy to include something more either on agriculture or mining. If you plan to attend @historyscience.bsky.social #ESHS #Edinburgh26 #histsci #artisan #practitioners #science
📣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
Image from Agostino Gallo
November 25, 2025 at 8:22 AM
CfP on artisans, practitioners, and instruments in the making of premodern science - I have two nice panels, but would be happy to include something more either on agriculture or mining. If you plan to attend @historyscience.bsky.social #ESHS #Edinburgh26 #histsci #artisan #practitioners #science
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📣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
Image from Agostino Gallo
November 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
📣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
Image from Agostino Gallo
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a #Cartesianevent #Descartes - a series on the Regulae, organized by Igor Agostini, Iacopo Chiaravalli and Alberto Ferrarin #histsci #histphilo #17thcentury
The event is online - programme here: www.sns.it/it/evento/re...
The event is online - programme here: www.sns.it/it/evento/re...
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM
a #Cartesianevent #Descartes - a series on the Regulae, organized by Igor Agostini, Iacopo Chiaravalli and Alberto Ferrarin #histsci #histphilo #17thcentury
The event is online - programme here: www.sns.it/it/evento/re...
The event is online - programme here: www.sns.it/it/evento/re...
On rural observator - the experience of rustics in Robert Plot's The Natural History of Stafford-Shire #environment #historyofwinds #naturalhistory #health #air #conenvhist #histsci #histphilo #histmed
November 18, 2025 at 11:17 AM
On rural observator - the experience of rustics in Robert Plot's The Natural History of Stafford-Shire #environment #historyofwinds #naturalhistory #health #air #conenvhist #histsci #histphilo #histmed
one of the central questions of my article, in which I explore the ascent of sap, is to focus on the ways premodern scholars interpreted this motion either as passive or active. This has crucial consequences on their definition of plant life #plantlife #vegscilif #histsci #ascentsap #17thcentury🌿
November 17, 2025 at 11:37 AM
one of the central questions of my article, in which I explore the ascent of sap, is to focus on the ways premodern scholars interpreted this motion either as passive or active. This has crucial consequences on their definition of plant life #plantlife #vegscilif #histsci #ascentsap #17thcentury🌿
My special issue on gardens and plants as laboratories of premodern science is out on @royalsocietypublishing.org #notesandrecords #nrrs #histplants #histsci #vegscilif #envhist with articles by me, Luzzini on minerals, @johedesan.bsky.social on Guy de La Brosse, Jalobeanu on Bacon, and Benharrech🌱
November 17, 2025 at 11:07 AM
My special issue on gardens and plants as laboratories of premodern science is out on @royalsocietypublishing.org #notesandrecords #nrrs #histplants #histsci #vegscilif #envhist with articles by me, Luzzini on minerals, @johedesan.bsky.social on Guy de La Brosse, Jalobeanu on Bacon, and Benharrech🌱
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#Cartesian event in Venice, organized with the #DescartesLab collaboration, on the recent edition of #Descartes's Regulae ad directionem ingenii. The event is blended.
#histphilo #histsci #earlymodernbooks #17thcentury #epistemology
We are pleased to support #DescartesAge #DescartesLaboratory
#histphilo #histsci #earlymodernbooks #17thcentury #epistemology
We are pleased to support #DescartesAge #DescartesLaboratory
November 14, 2025 at 10:30 AM
#Cartesian event in Venice, organized with the #DescartesLab collaboration, on the recent edition of #Descartes's Regulae ad directionem ingenii. The event is blended.
#histphilo #histsci #earlymodernbooks #17thcentury #epistemology
We are pleased to support #DescartesAge #DescartesLaboratory
#histphilo #histsci #earlymodernbooks #17thcentury #epistemology
We are pleased to support #DescartesAge #DescartesLaboratory
Francis Bacon on the ways burning of heather in Sussex produced winds that damaged the vines of Bordeaux #pollution #environment #agriculture #vine #vino #conenvhist #environmentalstudies #envhist #histsci #Bacon #air
November 14, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Francis Bacon on the ways burning of heather in Sussex produced winds that damaged the vines of Bordeaux #pollution #environment #agriculture #vine #vino #conenvhist #environmentalstudies #envhist #histsci #Bacon #air
📣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
Image from Agostino Gallo
November 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
📣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
Image from Agostino Gallo
book launch of my🌿"Filosofia e scienza delle piante nel Seicento"🌱- in Rome at La Sapienza, with the participation of Riccardo Pozzo - on November 13, at 2,15 pm (CET)
I am very happy for this - I will present a paper on #plantsandmetaphysics #histsci #plantstudies #histplants 🌳
I am very happy for this - I will present a paper on #plantsandmetaphysics #histsci #plantstudies #histplants 🌳
November 11, 2025 at 11:12 AM
book launch of my🌿"Filosofia e scienza delle piante nel Seicento"🌱- in Rome at La Sapienza, with the participation of Riccardo Pozzo - on November 13, at 2,15 pm (CET)
I am very happy for this - I will present a paper on #plantsandmetaphysics #histsci #plantstudies #histplants 🌳
I am very happy for this - I will present a paper on #plantsandmetaphysics #histsci #plantstudies #histplants 🌳
wrapping my presentation for this beautiful seminar at @bhmpi.bsky.social on Thursday morning (Rome time)🌿
#plantstudies #botany #premodernscience #histsci #arthistory 🌱
Do images have an epistemic role in botanical science?
#plantstudies #botany #premodernscience #histsci #arthistory 🌱
Do images have an epistemic role in botanical science?
November 4, 2025 at 2:47 PM
wrapping my presentation for this beautiful seminar at @bhmpi.bsky.social on Thursday morning (Rome time)🌿
#plantstudies #botany #premodernscience #histsci #arthistory 🌱
Do images have an epistemic role in botanical science?
#plantstudies #botany #premodernscience #histsci #arthistory 🌱
Do images have an epistemic role in botanical science?
apparently, I have obtained my habilitation as a Full Professor in history of science #histsci #academiclife by the Italian ministry!
November 4, 2025 at 12:57 PM
apparently, I have obtained my habilitation as a Full Professor in history of science #histsci #academiclife by the Italian ministry!
www.rsi.ch/rete-due/pro...
My interview (in Italian) at RSI (Swiss Radio), in which I discuss the importance of plant studies and the history of science in understanding ecology and the environment! #plantstudies #histsci #conenvhist #plantintelligence #plantlife
My interview (in Italian) at RSI (Swiss Radio), in which I discuss the importance of plant studies and the history of science in understanding ecology and the environment! #plantstudies #histsci #conenvhist #plantintelligence #plantlife
“L’indiscreto” - RSI
www.rsi.ch
November 3, 2025 at 4:48 PM
www.rsi.ch/rete-due/pro...
My interview (in Italian) at RSI (Swiss Radio), in which I discuss the importance of plant studies and the history of science in understanding ecology and the environment! #plantstudies #histsci #conenvhist #plantintelligence #plantlife
My interview (in Italian) at RSI (Swiss Radio), in which I discuss the importance of plant studies and the history of science in understanding ecology and the environment! #plantstudies #histsci #conenvhist #plantintelligence #plantlife
From Pier Crescenzi's Ruralia commoda
On vines 🍇
On vines 🍇
October 31, 2025 at 11:13 AM
From Pier Crescenzi's Ruralia commoda
On vines 🍇
On vines 🍇
Happy to share that the panel on 🍷wine🍇 I organized has been accepted for next @renaissancesociety.bsky.social #RSA #RSASanFrancisco26 #RSA26 #Vino #Wine #ConEnvHist
Below the panel⤵️
I look forward to exploring this topic
Join us if you are around! #histsci #environment #environmentalhistory
Below the panel⤵️
I look forward to exploring this topic
Join us if you are around! #histsci #environment #environmentalhistory
October 30, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Happy to share that the panel on 🍷wine🍇 I organized has been accepted for next @renaissancesociety.bsky.social #RSA #RSASanFrancisco26 #RSA26 #Vino #Wine #ConEnvHist
Below the panel⤵️
I look forward to exploring this topic
Join us if you are around! #histsci #environment #environmentalhistory
Below the panel⤵️
I look forward to exploring this topic
Join us if you are around! #histsci #environment #environmentalhistory
In my latest article for #ilTascabile, I explore how much indigenous and non-European cultures have predated the recent studies of plant intelligence, revealing a fascinating attention to the vegetal world. Here, I discuss #WallKimmer and #SumanaRoy books
#plants
www.iltascabile.com/scienze/cosa...
#plants
www.iltascabile.com/scienze/cosa...
Cosa hanno da insegnarci le piante
Dall’intreccio tra cultura indigena, scienza occidentale e mondo vegetale, una riflessione su come ripensare il legame tra esseri umani e natura.
www.iltascabile.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:32 AM
In my latest article for #ilTascabile, I explore how much indigenous and non-European cultures have predated the recent studies of plant intelligence, revealing a fascinating attention to the vegetal world. Here, I discuss #WallKimmer and #SumanaRoy books
#plants
www.iltascabile.com/scienze/cosa...
#plants
www.iltascabile.com/scienze/cosa...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rcsd...
Getting ready to🌿 "What Plants Tell Us" 🌳📣
Tomorrow at ENS Paris.
Programme below
#plantstudies #ConEnvHist #histphilo #histsci #environmentalstudies
Getting ready to🌿 "What Plants Tell Us" 🌳📣
Tomorrow at ENS Paris.
Programme below
#plantstudies #ConEnvHist #histphilo #histsci #environmentalstudies
Mahler / Britten - What the wild flowers tell me | Ariane Matiakh | WDR Sinfonieorchester
YouTube video by ARD Klassik
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October 28, 2025 at 11:24 AM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rcsd...
Getting ready to🌿 "What Plants Tell Us" 🌳📣
Tomorrow at ENS Paris.
Programme below
#plantstudies #ConEnvHist #histphilo #histsci #environmentalstudies
Getting ready to🌿 "What Plants Tell Us" 🌳📣
Tomorrow at ENS Paris.
Programme below
#plantstudies #ConEnvHist #histphilo #histsci #environmentalstudies
Reposted by Fabrizio Baldassarri
Next #DescartesLaboratory⤵️
November 11th, with Delphine Antoine-Mahut and Carmine Taddeo to discuss Steven Nadler's The Good Cartesian👌🧠
The event is online, everyone is welcome
#Descartes #histsci #histphilo #17thcentury #histmed
Email us for info!
fbaldassarriphilo.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/n...
November 11th, with Delphine Antoine-Mahut and Carmine Taddeo to discuss Steven Nadler's The Good Cartesian👌🧠
The event is online, everyone is welcome
#Descartes #histsci #histphilo #17thcentury #histmed
Email us for info!
fbaldassarriphilo.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/n...
October 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Next #DescartesLaboratory⤵️
November 11th, with Delphine Antoine-Mahut and Carmine Taddeo to discuss Steven Nadler's The Good Cartesian👌🧠
The event is online, everyone is welcome
#Descartes #histsci #histphilo #17thcentury #histmed
Email us for info!
fbaldassarriphilo.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/n...
November 11th, with Delphine Antoine-Mahut and Carmine Taddeo to discuss Steven Nadler's The Good Cartesian👌🧠
The event is online, everyone is welcome
#Descartes #histsci #histphilo #17thcentury #histmed
Email us for info!
fbaldassarriphilo.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/n...
October 23, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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...
#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...
www.indiscreto.org
October 21, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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...
#plantstudies #plantintelligence #ecology #environmentalstudies #philo #histsci #ConEnvHist
www.indiscreto.org/lintelligenz...
Reposted by Fabrizio Baldassarri
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
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
October 20, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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
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
Reposted by Fabrizio Baldassarri
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...
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...
www.biblhertz.it
October 20, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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...
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...
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!
I look very forward to this!
I am in Paris from this Friday - happy to catch up with friends!
October 20, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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!
I look very forward to this!
I am in Paris from this Friday - happy to catch up with friends!
Reposted by Fabrizio Baldassarri
a fascinating podcast on Descartes's involvement with the sciences and medicine - yet, there are lights and shadows, as a powerful ambivalence nuances his medical research. #descartes #histsci #histmed #histphilo #ambivalence #metaphysics #17thcentury
Today's new episode: Cartesian Science!
From comets to blood transfusions, embryology, and the debate over the pineal gland: Descartes’ impact on science, especially medicine.
www.historyofphilosophy.net/cartesian-sc...
#hopwag #philsky #descartes #historyofscience #podcasts
From comets to blood transfusions, embryology, and the debate over the pineal gland: Descartes’ impact on science, especially medicine.
www.historyofphilosophy.net/cartesian-sc...
#hopwag #philsky #descartes #historyofscience #podcasts
October 19, 2025 at 9:45 AM
a fascinating podcast on Descartes's involvement with the sciences and medicine - yet, there are lights and shadows, as a powerful ambivalence nuances his medical research. #descartes #histsci #histmed #histphilo #ambivalence #metaphysics #17thcentury
a very nice book review of the volume Descartes and Medicine has been published on the #EuropeanJournalHistoryMedicineandHealth @degruyterbrill.bsky.social
The book is here: www.brepols.net/products/IS-... @brepols.net #Descartes #17thcentury #histsci #histphilo
See here
brill.com/view/journal...
The book is here: www.brepols.net/products/IS-... @brepols.net #Descartes #17thcentury #histsci #histphilo
See here
brill.com/view/journal...
October 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
a very nice book review of the volume Descartes and Medicine has been published on the #EuropeanJournalHistoryMedicineandHealth @degruyterbrill.bsky.social
The book is here: www.brepols.net/products/IS-... @brepols.net #Descartes #17thcentury #histsci #histphilo
See here
brill.com/view/journal...
The book is here: www.brepols.net/products/IS-... @brepols.net #Descartes #17thcentury #histsci #histphilo
See here
brill.com/view/journal...