Article ID: CBB928108664

Le piante tra natura naturans e natura naturata: immagini di armonia vegetale nella prima età moderna (2022)

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This article aims to deal with an image of vegetal life that belongs neither to a mathematical/mechanistic reading of natural phenomena nor to the Aristotelian model of cosmological order and realms of nature. The first part of the paper examines the Renaissance interpretation of the myth of Pan, which involves an idea of nature and harmony in which the spiritus mundi or the rationes seminales permeate God’s creation. This reading of the universe entails a definition of scala naturae where plants are significant knots into a web of correspondences among celestial, terrestrial, and underground levels, in addition to providing new evidence to blur the distinctions between vegetable and animal realms. The second part of the article analyses the continuity and kinships between plants and animals put forward by Della Porta, Kircher, Duret, and Redi, which rely on metaphors, functional and physiological analogies, anthropomorphic theory, as well as on the debates over the existence of the sensitive soul of plants.

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Authors & Contributors
Baldassarri, Fabrizio
Dalby, Andrew
Edgington, John
Generali, Dario
Gentilcore, David
Giesecke, Annette
Journals
Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
Bruniana & Campanelliana: Ricerche Filosofiche e Materiali Storico-testuali
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
HOPOS
Medicina nei Secoli - Arte e Scienza
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Publishers
Walter de Gruyter
Olschki
Agorà
Bloomsbury Academic
Brill
Marsilio
Concepts
Plants
Botany
Natural philosophy
Metaphors; analogies
Medicine
Soul (philosophy)
People
Della Porta, Giovan Battista
Bacon, Francis, 1st Baron Verulam
Botticelli, Sandro
Columbus, Christopher
Descartes, René
Grew, Nehemiah
Time Periods
Renaissance
Early modern
17th century
16th century
18th century
Medieval
Places
Europe
Italy
Great Britain
Venice (Italy)
Germany
Americas
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