Research group on the study of plants in premodern time - plantphilo, plantstudies, plantcirculation, cultivation&agriculture, environment #manipulatingflora
Joined July 2018
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On Patreon, the history of the culinary uses of citron with translations from Pliny's Naturalis Historia, Palladius' Opus Agriculturae, De Re Coquinaria, and Wellcome Manuscript 211.
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It is with sadness that we have learned the passing of John Dixon Hunt on September 27, 2026. Here a brief memory by @DumbartonOaks #Gardenhistory #Architecture #Gardens #plantstudies
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November 10-11 in Basel, discussing the intersections of poetry, science, agriculture (georgics). I will say something on cucumbers and the mythology/motric activity #histsci #histagriculture #highlowknowledge – at Paris, France
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Post from Herbarium World on material culture and herbaria: herbariumworld.wordpress.com… #materialculture
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📢fascinating new publication - a volume on images and institutions in the 17th and 18th centuries, edited by M. Jonker and @KatieofReinhart for
@Brepols
with chapters on plants, plant illustrations, and plant knowledge #planthistory #illustrations
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A specific Black pine was considered to be Tolkien’s favorite tree at Oxford Botanic Garden, UK (lost in 2014). Its rough gray bark and twisting branches inspired the creation of the Treebeard and the Ents in THE TWO TOWERS, The Lord of The Rings.
Pix: @mobotgarden Herbarium
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October 15-16 in Paris to discuss #oeconomianaturalis #oeconomy - with an amazing group of scholars, and very happy to share my thoughts on Descartes's proto-ecology, Cartesians, and some 17th-century naturalists discussing plants #ecology #histsci #environmentalhistory #envhist – at Bologna, Emilia Romagna
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The natural historian, Stephen Hales, who was the first to measure blood pressure, was born 17 September 1677 #histsci #histtech
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Flora of Singapore vols. 1, 7 + 13 also published
Vol. 1 Introduction to Singapore
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Vol. 7 Poales (grasses, sedges etc.)
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Vol. 13 Gentianales (incl. Rubiaceae)
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@nparksbuzz #SBGScience #botany
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In her essay “Spontaneous Revolutions” @the_manticore_ delves into a lesser-known chapter of Darwin’s research, his fascination with tracking the movement of plants — publicdomainreview.org/essay…
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Flora of Singapore volume 4 download link
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Flora of Singapore Volume 4 just published alert 🚨🌲🌳
Gymnosperms, Nymphaeales, Austrobaileyales, Piperales, Magnoliales, Laurales and Chloranthales.
Available online here (free!) nparks.gov.sg/sbg/research/p…
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I’m excited to see this collaboration with @postcolsandwich in print in this Plant Humanities volume! We researched and wrote our dissertations together, and we’re sharing space with writers I admire like Sumana Roy, Judith Carney, Romita Ray, Gary Paul Nahban, & Yota Batsaki.
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Fascinating article by Alain Touwaide and Emanuela Appetiti on Mattioli's Taxonomical Troubles in his Medical Botany #histmed #plantstudies #botany #renaissance #taxonomy #materiamedica #mattioli #manipulatingflora
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Post from Herbarium World on a Harvard Botanical Libraries herbarium of plants from the 1820 Parry Expedition to the Canadian Arctic herbariumworld.wordpress.com…
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Article from @haaretzcom by @ruthschuster When Prey Becomes Predator: A Plant That Darwin Thought Was Carnivorous Really Is "...new study provides proof of carnivory in Saxifraga candelabrum based on multiple lines of evidence..." haaretz.com/science-and-heal…
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Follow the Plants, new book edited by Madeleine Collie & Yvonne Billimore, traces "impacts of monocultures on the lively socialites of plant human communities & extends the enquiry with newly commissioned essays, invitations, scores & visual contributions" onomatopee.net/product/follo…
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For #InternationalTigerDay... "Tigerlillia Terribilis" — from Edward Lear’s Nonsense Botany (1871–77).
More here: publicdomainreview.org/colle… #InternationalTigerDay2022
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⬇️my CfP for #RSA27 #RSAPhilly
@RSAorg
on #excrescences such as fungi, moss, ivy, galls, and #spontaneouslife on plants is out!
#plantstudies #plantlife #nature 🌿🪸🧽🍄🌱
Feel free to contact me and send proposals by the end of July!
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In medieval calendars the month of July is often illustrated by scenes of labourers working hard in a meadow, getting in the hay harvest. My latest piece for @HistoryToday is all about meads and meadows, their language and their poetry... historytoday.com/archive/out…
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Satisfaction with urban trees associates with tree canopy cover and tree visibility around the home - fascinating perspective #plantstudies
