International audienceThis paper focuses on the relationship between peasant practices and learned theories in the context of the debates on the transmission of corn disease between 1730 and 1760. At first, learned texts on plant diseases sought for the causes in weather conditions, in accordance with Theophrastus and Pliny the Elder. Then, country scholars proposed explanations and remedies based on peasant practices for the symptom of corn turning entirely or partially into black dust. These practices designated the quality of the seed, in particular whether or not it was spotted by diseased grain. In the 1750s, some members of the learned world turned toward the writings of these country scholars and, on their basis, carried out experime...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Routledge via the DOI in...
The Exceptional Destiny of Corn. After reviewing the long controversy concerning the origin of corn,...
The Exceptional Destiny of Corn. After reviewing the long controversy concerning the origin of corn,...
International audienceThis paper focuses on the relationship between peasant practices and learned t...
International audienceThis paper focuses on the relationship between peasant practices and learned t...
SUMMARY. — This paper focuses on the relationship between peasant practices and learned theories in ...
International audienceThis paper deals with the development of interpretations of plants' diseases b...
International audienceThis paper deals with the development of interpretations of plants' diseases b...
National audienceThis article attempts to understand the technical practices of the ploughmen. But w...
National audienceThis article attempts to understand the technical practices of the ploughmen. But w...
International audienceWere the poor wheat crops the origins of the economic crisis during the period...
International audienceWere the poor wheat crops the origins of the economic crisis during the period...
Botany and agriculture in Western Europe (1350-1850) - After recalling the hypotheses developed in ...
Botany and agriculture in Western Europe (1350-1850) - After recalling the hypotheses developed in ...
Collecting seeds and specimens was an integral aspect of botany and natural history in the eighteent...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Routledge via the DOI in...
The Exceptional Destiny of Corn. After reviewing the long controversy concerning the origin of corn,...
The Exceptional Destiny of Corn. After reviewing the long controversy concerning the origin of corn,...
International audienceThis paper focuses on the relationship between peasant practices and learned t...
International audienceThis paper focuses on the relationship between peasant practices and learned t...
SUMMARY. — This paper focuses on the relationship between peasant practices and learned theories in ...
International audienceThis paper deals with the development of interpretations of plants' diseases b...
International audienceThis paper deals with the development of interpretations of plants' diseases b...
National audienceThis article attempts to understand the technical practices of the ploughmen. But w...
National audienceThis article attempts to understand the technical practices of the ploughmen. But w...
International audienceWere the poor wheat crops the origins of the economic crisis during the period...
International audienceWere the poor wheat crops the origins of the economic crisis during the period...
Botany and agriculture in Western Europe (1350-1850) - After recalling the hypotheses developed in ...
Botany and agriculture in Western Europe (1350-1850) - After recalling the hypotheses developed in ...
Collecting seeds and specimens was an integral aspect of botany and natural history in the eighteent...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Routledge via the DOI in...
The Exceptional Destiny of Corn. After reviewing the long controversy concerning the origin of corn,...
The Exceptional Destiny of Corn. After reviewing the long controversy concerning the origin of corn,...