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| Accesso online: | https://brill.com/view/journals/nun/nun-overview.xml |
| Autore principale: | Baldassarri, Fabrizio.
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| Titolo: | A clockwork orange : citrus fruits in early modern philosophy, science and medicine, 1564-1668 / Fabrizio Baldassarri. |
| Abstract: | In the early modern time citrus fruits unpredictably drew enormous attention, not only in mythology or artistic knowledge, but also in natural philosophy and medicine. Embedded within two lesser-known texts belonging to the sciences, in this article I analyse diverse sources to appraise the richness and plurality of approaches to citrus fruits that pool different ways of constructing a complex knowledge of plants. First, I explore the classificatory attempts of Renaissance botanists. Second, I discuss the experimental investigation in the enchantment for monstrosities and teratologies in Della Porta's natural magic and Aldrovandi's naturalism. Then, I present the more structured obsession displayed by Giovanni Battista Ferrari. Finally, I investigate the natural philosophical systematization of citrus in Gassendi's corpuscularianism and Descartes' mechanics. In outlining a combination of frameworks, the study of citrus fruits surfaces as a suitable case study to assess the complex knowledge of plants in early modern Europe |
| In: |  Nuncius Vol. 37 (2022), p. 255-283 |
| Discipline: | Botanica--Studi specifici. Filosofia moderna--Studi. |
| Sudd. cronologiche: | Rinascimento. Secolo XVII. |
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