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The world of plants in Renaissance Tuscany : medicine and botany / Cristina Bellorini.
Author
Bellorini, Cristina
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2016]
©2016
Description
x, 261 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
RS177.I8 B45 2016
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Subject(s)
Medicinal plants
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Italy
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Tuscany
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History
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16th century
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Materia medica, Vegetable
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Italy
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Tuscany
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History
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Botany, Medical
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Italy
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Tuscany
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History
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History of medicine in context
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The history of medicine in context
Summary note
"In the sixteenth century medicinal plants, which until then had been the monopoly of apothecaries, became a major topic of investigation in the medical faculties of Italian universities, where they were observed, transplanted, and grown by learned physicians both in the wild and in the newly founded botanical gardens. Tuscany was one of the main European centres in this new field of inquiry, thanks largely to the Medici Grand Dukes, who patronised and sustained research and teaching, whilst also taking a significant personal interest in plants and medicine. This is the first major reconstruction of this new world of plants in sixteenth-century Tuscany. Focusing primarily on the medical use of plants, this book also shows how plants, while maintaining their importance in therapy, began to be considered and studied for themselves, and how this new understanding prepared the groundwork for the science of botany. More broadly this study explores how the New World's flora impacted on existing botanical knowledge and how this led to the first attempts at taxonomy."-- Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group website.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-254) and index.
Contents
Plants and medicine at the court of Cosimo, Francesco, and Ferdinando de' Medici
Medical botany at the re-founded University of Pisa
New ways of studying plants
Plants from the new world
The Nuovo Ricettario Fiorentino and the understanding of therapy
Theory and practice.
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ISBN
9781472466228 ((hbk. ; : alk. paper))
1472466225 ((hbk. ; : alk. paper))
1472466233
9781472466235
1472466241
9781472466242
LCCN
2015027256
OCLC
923796791
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