In this article, I investigate how much the understanding of plants in French Libertine culture somehow anticipated the vitalistic interpretation of nature as entirely endowed with sensation, perception, and cognition, something one may call protovitalism.Situated between the Renaissance naturalism of Telesio, Cardano, and Campanella (and also Cesalpino) and Glisson's hylozoism, Libertine botany conceived of plants as key figures to challenge the restrictions on living bodies of the more traditional order of nature. Exploring the cases of Guy de La Brosse and Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac's work, two different segments of Libertine culture, I uncover two meaningful interpretations of plant life as comprehensive and non-obscure, therefore subv...
L’étude des plantes à la fin du Moyen Age n’a pas d’autonomie. Elle s’intègre à une approche philoso...
Plant study at the end of the Middle Ages doesn’t operate as an independent unit. It belongs rather ...
Abstract: Healthy body and virtuous mores in the Leonhart Fuchs’ herbarium at the beginning of the 1...
In this article, I investigate how much the understanding of plants in French Libertine culture some...
Drawing attention to the status of plants during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, through a...
Traditionally conceived of as subordinate bodies in the study of nature, plants gained momentum in t...
In this article, I argue that the French philosopher René Descartes was far more involved in the stu...
That plants have always held an essential value for human life may be obvious, but nevertheless it i...
This is the final version. Available from Cambridge University Press via the DOI in this recordDurin...
This contribution explains three aspects of the development of botanical knowledge between the thirt...
That plants have always held an essential value for human life may be obvious, but nevertheless it i...
That plants have always held an essential value for human life may be obvious, but nevertheless it i...
The study of plants has traditionally developed as an important complement to medicine, especially ...
Original article can be found at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01916599 Copyright El...
This article gives a quick panorama of what was known about plants during the Greek and Roman period...
L’étude des plantes à la fin du Moyen Age n’a pas d’autonomie. Elle s’intègre à une approche philoso...
Plant study at the end of the Middle Ages doesn’t operate as an independent unit. It belongs rather ...
Abstract: Healthy body and virtuous mores in the Leonhart Fuchs’ herbarium at the beginning of the 1...
In this article, I investigate how much the understanding of plants in French Libertine culture some...
Drawing attention to the status of plants during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, through a...
Traditionally conceived of as subordinate bodies in the study of nature, plants gained momentum in t...
In this article, I argue that the French philosopher René Descartes was far more involved in the stu...
That plants have always held an essential value for human life may be obvious, but nevertheless it i...
This is the final version. Available from Cambridge University Press via the DOI in this recordDurin...
This contribution explains three aspects of the development of botanical knowledge between the thirt...
That plants have always held an essential value for human life may be obvious, but nevertheless it i...
That plants have always held an essential value for human life may be obvious, but nevertheless it i...
The study of plants has traditionally developed as an important complement to medicine, especially ...
Original article can be found at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01916599 Copyright El...
This article gives a quick panorama of what was known about plants during the Greek and Roman period...
L’étude des plantes à la fin du Moyen Age n’a pas d’autonomie. Elle s’intègre à une approche philoso...
Plant study at the end of the Middle Ages doesn’t operate as an independent unit. It belongs rather ...
Abstract: Healthy body and virtuous mores in the Leonhart Fuchs’ herbarium at the beginning of the 1...