Format:
1 Online-Ressource (XVI, 251 Seiten)
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Edition:
Reproduktion Issued also in print
ISBN:
9783111001104
Series Statement:
Medical traditions volume 9
Content:
In 1583 the Italian botanist and physician Andrea Cesalpino (1524–1603) published De Plantis Libri XVI, made of 16 books (libri), considered to be the first treatise where botany is treated independently from medicine. In so doing, he broke with a long tradition inherited in Western science from Antiquity and perpetuated during the Middle Age through the early Renaissance. De Plantis lays the foundations of scientific systematics through a new focus on plant morphology and natural similarities and became a milestone in the history of Western botany. It is a precious testimony to the evolution of botanical and physiological knowledge in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and illustrates the role of Aristotelian philosophy in 16th-century knowledge. The volume includes an introductory essay about Cesalpino's philosophy and botany, a critical edition of the Latin text, a translation, a commentary, and indexes. It should interest scholars in Renaissance studies, historians, and philosophers of science and medicine, as well as botanists and plant scientists curious about the history of plant sciences
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Frontmatter
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Foreword
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Table of Contents
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Acknowledgments
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List of figures
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Introduction
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Part I: An Introductory Essay
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Part II: Latin Text and Facing English Translation
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Part III: Commentary
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Part IV: Appendices
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Issued also in print
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In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783111000169
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als print ISBN 9783111000169
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Hiernaux, Quentin Andrea Cesalpino's ›De Plantis Libri XVI‹ (1583) and the transformation of medical botany in the 16th century Berlin : De Gruyter, 2023 ISBN 9783111000169
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3111000168
Language:
English
Subjects:
Biology
Keywords:
Cesalpino, Andrea 1519-1603
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Medizin
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Geschichte 1500-1599
DOI:
10.1515/9783111001104
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