Filosofia e scienza delle piante nel Seicento. Fisiologia, anatomia e meccanica vegetale (2024)
Baldassarri, Fabrizio (Author)
Edizioni ETS
Publication date: 2024
Language: Italian
Physical Details: 168 pp.
Le piante hanno ricoperto un ruolo incerto nella tradizione filosofica e scientifica occidentale. Ontologicamente a metà tra minerali e pietre, animali ed esseri umani, i corpi vegetali sono stati considerati come oggetti da utilizzare per la terapeutica e la nutrizione o per ragioni estetiche, in una restrizione scientifica a oggetti sussidiari delle scienze principali. Nel Rinascimento, la scienza delle piante è principalmente collezione di varietà vegetali, identificazione, tassonomia e materia medica. Sono però gli stessi naturalisti a interrogarsi sulle cause e sui principi delle qualità, attività e virtù vegetali, reclamando un’unità tra la farmacologia e la tassonomia con la filosofia. A partire dallo studio delle cause e principi della vita vegetale, fino alla fisiologia e anatomia vegetale, da Cesalpino a Locke, passando per Descartes, Bacon, Gassendi, Cavendish, Digby, Harvey, Mariotte, Grew e Malpighi, questo libro ricostruisce alcuni tentativi di rigettare l’impianto essenzialista della scienza aristotelica e di determinare la meccanica della natura vegetale, in un secolo di straordinari cambiamenti scientifici e di lenta definizione della scienza botanica. [Abstract translated by Google Translate: This is the abstract in English… Plants have held an uncertain role in the Western philosophical and scientific tradition. Ontologically halfway between minerals and stones, animals and human beings, plant bodies have been considered as objects to be used for therapeutics and nutrition or for aesthetic reasons, in a scientific restriction to subsidiary objects of the main sciences. In the Renaissance, plant science is mainly collection of plant varieties, identification, taxonomy and materia medica. However, it is the naturalists themselves who question the causes and principles of plant qualities, activities and virtues, calling for a unity between pharmacology and taxonomy with philosophy. Starting from the study of the causes and principles of plant life, up to plant physiology and anatomy, from Cesalpino to Locke, passing through Descartes, Bacon, Gassendi, Cavendish, Digby, Harvey, Mariotte, Grew and Malpighi, this book reconstructs some attempts to reject the essentialist framework of Aristotelian science and determine the mechanics of vegetal nature, in a century of extraordinary scientific changes and slow definition of botanical science.]
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