Manipulating Flora

Snowdrops are native to Eastern Europe and had been associated with Candlemas (2nd February) as their flowering period coincides with the feast of the purification of the Virgin after childbirth.

In 1596, London based botanist Gerard is the first one to mention them growing on English soil.

📣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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Book cover in with hot pink background, title reversed out of lavender block. At top center is an early modern botanical drawing of two bulb plants.

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

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!

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

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

#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

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/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

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...

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

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…

Let me also add that the volume is now available in paperback - www.bloomsbury.com/uk/andrea-ce...

📣 #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...

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

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.

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

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/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⤵️

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...

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...

YouTube video by The Plant Initiative The Vegetal Turn: a conversation with Marcello Di Paola

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

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

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...

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...

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.

Author holds book in front of book table

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 🍃

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

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

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!

Centaurus: Vol 65, No 4

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...

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

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

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...

YouTube video by The Plant Initiative The Vegetal Turn: a conversation with Marcello Di Paola

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...