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Manipulating Flora @manipulatingflora.bsky.social · 19h

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

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Manipulating Flora @manipulatingflora.bsky.social · Aug 27

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

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Fabrizio Baldassarri @fabribald.bsky.social · Aug 27

#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

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Fabrizio Baldassarri @fabribald.bsky.social · Aug 1

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

Click on the article title to read more.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Fabrizio Baldassarri @fabribald.bsky.social · Jul 6

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...

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Fabrizio Baldassarri @fabribald.bsky.social · Jun 16

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

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Fabrizio Baldassarri @fabribald.bsky.social · Jun 5

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…

www.bloomsbury.com

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Fabrizio Baldassarri @fabribald.bsky.social · May 30

📣 #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...

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Fabrizio Baldassarri @fabribald.bsky.social · Jun 2

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

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ROTO Research Group @roto-rub.bsky.social · May 26

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

Poster for the talk by Stella Sandford, entitled "'Promiscuous realism' and Plant Individuality: Reflections on John Dupré's Philosophy of Biology". It will take place on Monday, 2 June 2025 at 4 pm (CET) via Zoom.

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Fabrizio Baldassarri @fabribald.bsky.social · May 12

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 ...

www.ortomuseobot.sma.unipi.it

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The Plant Initiative @theplantinitiative.bsky.social · May 9

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...

www.aup.nl

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The Plant Initiative @theplantinitiative.bsky.social · Jan 30

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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Printmakers of Scotland @printersofscotland.bsky.social · Apr 14

Our next printmaker is Tom Scott whose prints focus on trees, the patterns in their rings and the beauty of their growth. If you are able to come along 15-17 Aug, Tom will enthuse you about his work and you can only admire the scale and focus of it.
www.printmakersofscotland.com

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Fabrizio Baldassarri @fabribald.bsky.social · Apr 14

I was reminded that the volume Vegetative Powers was published circa 4 years ago, presenting a deep discussion with the powers of plants and vegetation in a wide-array of philosophers #vegpowers #vegetation #manipulatingflora #plantstudies

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social · Apr 11

Congratulations to the editor of & contributors to

Epistemic Practices & Plant Classification in Pre-Modern Botanical Knowledge: An Interdisciplinary Treatment
Edited by @fabribald.bsky.social
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

It appears in the @amsterdamupress.bsky social series Scientiae Studies.

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...

www.aup.nl

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Amsterdam University Press @amsterdamupress.bsky.social · Mar 21

Thank you to @fabribald.bsky.social for saying hi!

His book ‘Epistemic Practices and Plant Classification in Premodern European Botanical Knowledge’ uncovers the diverse approach to plants in the 17th century that paved the way for a definition of botany as a discipline. Find it on our #RSA stand 🍃

Author holds book in front of book table

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Amsterdam University Press @amsterdamupress.bsky.social · Mar 20

It’s always a joy to catch up with Catherine Powell-Warren, author of ‘Gender and Self-Fashioning at the Intersection of Art and Science’

Her impressive book recently won the First Book Prize at the SSEMWG book awards #RSA #earlymodsky

Catherine Powell-Warren holds up her book in front of table of books

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Guy Sechrist, PhD @guysechrist.bsky.social · Feb 28

Hello Everyone, please join us at the Denbo Center virtually for @fabribald.bsky.social talk as part of our seminar series, Labour of Science. Register with the QR code below! Looking forward to seeing you all there!

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Manipulating Flora @manipulatingflora.bsky.social · Feb 20

The latest issue of @centaurus-bsky.bsky.social #Centaurus @brepols.bsky.social is out with an oa special issue on #NehemiahGrew, edited by Christoffer Basse Eriksen and Pamela Mackenzie - entitled: "Nehemiah Grew and the Making of the Anatomy of Plants".🌳🌱

www.brepolsonline.net/toc/cnt/2023...

Centaurus: Vol 65, No 4

www.brepolsonline.net

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Manipulating Flora @manipulatingflora.bsky.social · Feb 19

Fascinating programme for the Colonial Natural History Seminar Series of Spring 2025

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Manipulating Flora @manipulatingflora.bsky.social · Feb 13

a nice event on February 21st (online at 5pm - Italy time), organized by Anatole Tchikine and Florike Egmond

this is a new project,🌻Early Modern Botanical Knowledge Production🌱

in this event, Dr. Sabrina Minuzzi discusses "Materia medica between past and future"

#Earlymodernbotanicalknowledge

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Fabrizio Baldassarri @fabribald.bsky.social · Feb 5

Just published: a very generous review of the volume I edited,🍀 Plants in 16th and 17th century🌿, written by Jose-Pardo Tomas on Nuncius @manipulatingflora.bsky.social @degruyterbrill.bsky.social I am flattered!!! Hope you like it
brill.com/view/journal...

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Fabrizio Baldassarri @fabribald.bsky.social · Jan 31

Marcello Di Paolo discussing his recent research Vegetal Turn - an important addition to our understanding of the relationship between plants, nature and societies #plantinitiative #vegetalturn #plantstudies #plantethics

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa5D...

The Vegetal Turn: a conversation with Marcello Di Paola

YouTube video by The Plant Initiative

www.youtube.com

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SHNH @sochistnathist.bsky.social · Dec 3

Hello! As everyone else is giving it a go, we thought we'd better dip our toe in too.

We're here for all your natural history needs, especially where it intersects with culture, society and history 🌱📖🦋

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