Article ID: CBB346946506

Using Instruments in the Study of Animate Beings: Della Porta's and Bacon's Experiments with Plants (2020)

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In this paper, I explain Francis Bacon's use of plants as philosophical instruments in the context of his Historia vitae et mortis. My main claim is that Bacon experimented with plants in order to ob...

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Authors & Contributors
Jalobeanu, Dana
Rusu, Doina-Cristina
Matei, Oana
Baldassarri, Fabrizio
Mirren, Helen
Čermáková, Lucie
Concepts
Plants
Botany
Experiments and experimentation
Natural philosophy
Formulas, recipes, etc...
Pharmacy
Time Periods
17th century
16th century
Renaissance
Early modern
18th century
Places
England
Italy
Europe
Americas
Institutions
Royal Society of London
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