‘Where have all the flowers grown’: the relationship between a plant and its place in sixteenth-century botanical treatises

Čermáková, Lucie

doi:10.2478/glp-2019-0010

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“…Vielä enemmän Tradescantien ajatteluun saattoi vaikuttaa kasvitieteessä jo 1500-luvun lopulla noussut, empiriaa korostanut ajattelutapa, jossa lisääntyneen kasvitieteellisen tietä-myksen myötä antiikin kasvitieteilijöiden välittämä tieto alkoi vaikuttaa riittämättömältä. Sen sijaan alettiin suosia oman alueen kasvillisuuden omakohtaista tutkimista (Cermáková, 2019).…”

Section: Johtopäätökset: Keräilijöiden Maailmoista Kulttuurisiin Maai...unclassified

Mikrokosmoksen matkaajat. Matkamuistot ja omakohtainen kokemus 1600-luvun englantilaisissa kuriositeettikokoelmissa

Penttinen

2022

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Royal gardeners and collectors of curiosities, father and son John Tradescant, were praised as world-travellers, who created a miniature world for their contemporaries to enjoy. But whose world was it based on – and whose world did it convey? In this article, I examine the objects and plants in seventeenth-century English cabinets of curiosities as both personal and culturally collective souvenirs, through which I reveal contemporary ideas about mobility, travel, and the concept of first-hand experience in Early modern England. As an example, I use the collection known as the Tradescant Ark with the help of diary entries, letters, and the 1656 catalogue. I especially analyse the catalogue as a form of reconstructing historical travel. The Tradescants, as was common at the time, were associated with God as creators of their private microcosm. Their subjective experiences of the world were also represented in the geographical as well as the social networks through which the objects had apparently travelled. However, the world of the collection was not only subjective; Collective, for example English and European, aspirations and geographical imaginations were also detectable in its contents. Moreover, a visitor to the collection carried their own personal worldviews that became influenced by the microcosm of the collection. Eventually, there is no such thing as a pure experience of the world, but always an endless combination of one’s own and others’ experiences, past and present, personal and collective – a collection such as The Ark being a perfect representation of such a mixture.

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Section: Johtopäätökset: Keräilijöiden Maailmoista Kulttuurisiin Maai...unclassified

Mikrokosmoksen matkaajat. Matkamuistot ja omakohtainen kokemus 1600-luvun englantilaisissa kuriositeettikokoelmissa

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2022

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Descartes and the Dutch: Botanical Experimentation in the Early Modern Period

Baldassarri

2020

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Early modern study of plants blossomed in a network of observation, exchanges, collaborations, and epistolary discussions. Following Baconian methodology, Dutch scholars combined the labor of listing and describing plants with botanical experimentation. This empirical approach was a suitable context for Descartes, who exchanged information and performed observations on plants in collaboration with Dutch experimenters. In this article, I focus on (1) the reception of a few botanical experiments of Bacon’s Sylva Sylvarum in Huygens and Reneri, with whom Descartes was in contact, and (2) Descartes’ collaboration with Reneri. While performing observations on plants together, Reneri acquired Descartes’ theoretical framework (as it arises in his disputations) and influenced the latter with a Baconian approach to the study of living nature. This combination of experimental knowledge and a theoretical framework shaped a Cartesian study of plants, as it later surfaced in Regius and ultimately paved the way to a modern science of plants.

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‘Where have all the flowers grown’: the relationship between a plant and its place in sixteenth-century botanical treatises

Cited by 2 publications

References 32 publications

Mikrokosmoksen matkaajat. Matkamuistot ja omakohtainen kokemus 1600-luvun englantilaisissa kuriositeettikokoelmissa

Mikrokosmoksen matkaajat. Matkamuistot ja omakohtainen kokemus 1600-luvun englantilaisissa kuriositeettikokoelmissa

Descartes and the Dutch: Botanical Experimentation in the Early Modern Period

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