Epistemic Practices and Plant Classification in Premodern European Botanical Knowledge

Fabrizio Baldassarri is research fellow in the history of science at University of Rome 3. His research focuses on pre-modern plant studies and environmental history. His publications include, Andrea Cesalpino and Renaissance Aristotelianism (2023), René Descartes’s Natural Philosophy and Particular Bodies(2024), and Filosofia e scienza delle piante nel Seicento (2024). He coordinates ManipulatingFlora.

• 1. The Epistemic Lightness of Botany: An Introduction - Fabrizio Baldassarri, Plant Naming and Classification: Translation, Trade Networks and Geographies of Knowledge, 2. Naming Trees in 15th-Century Herbals: Translations and Bilingualism in Botanical Vocabulary - Alice Laforet, 3. Benedetto Varchi's Inventario d'herbe: A Humanist Glossary from the 1540s—Text and Commentary - Dario Brancato and Iolanda Ventura, 4. Botany and Diplomacy: Pietro Andrea Mattioli and his Flemish Correspondents in Constantinople (1557-1568) - Luca Ciancio, 5. Peregrine Empires: The 'Fruitful Neighbourhood and Great Trade' of Leonhart Rauwolf's Plant Collecting - Maria M. Carri.n and Violeta Ruiz Espigares, 6. Biblio-Botany in pre-Linnaean Sweden: user Traces in Arvid Månsson's Örta-book - Anna Svensson, Classification and Method: Epistemic Practices, Material, Visual and Technological Knowledge, 7. Shapes of Knowledge: Images and the Identification of Exotic Plants by European Naturalists in the Sixteenth Century - Florike Egmond, 8. Patterns of Growth: Hieronymus Boch's Treatment of Plants and his Theophrastian Classification - Brenton Wells, 9. On the Path to Classification: The Method for Grouping Plants in the Late Renaissance (1570-1600) - Philippe Selosse, 10. Experiments with Resurrections: The Palingenesis of Plants in Early Modern England - Antonio Clericuzio, 11. Between Aristotelianism and Artisanal Technology: Pinelli's Botanical Studies - Stefano Gulizia.