Titlebook: Botanophilia in Eighteenth-Century France; The Spirit of the En Rogel L. Williams Book 2001 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2001

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Public Botanophilia: Learned Societies and Eminent Botanophiles,women in literary or religious societies; so that, in retrospect, Fontenelle’s . (1686), a series of lively and elegant dialogues between a philosopher and a marquise, encompassing Cartesian theory and the facts of astronomy, seems to have been a harbinger of feminine interest in natural science in the 18th century.

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Epilogue,ordinance of 1669 can be a sobering reflection, no matter that, in the end, the botanophiles won the war. What is more, the dogged resistence to reform during the final decades of the campaign exposed anew the true traditional sources of deforestation and why its revival poses an endless threat.

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Prologue,lips into the Netherlands from the Levant. Enormous prices were paid for rare varieties of tulip bulbs. But tulipomania had really been a form of gambling. The admiration of the flower and interest in its cultivation were quite secondary matters, albeit the tulip became permanently popular.

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Finale,ust be made to understand, as he put it, that botany is not simply “a dry, arid study confined to knowing, naming, and classifying plants, but also an amiable science, at once interesting and useful.”.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-91388-9on that memorable morning, presented the idea in such ribald phrases, with analogies explicitly drawn from human anatomy, that the audience, mostly medical students, departed both enthralled and convinced, no matter that the occasion also provoked scandal from those who had always presumed the sweet innocence of flowers.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-91388-9foundations until the later 19th century. In effect, both disciplines would separate themselves from traditional herbalism. The separation did not imply that plants were no longer believed to possess valuable medicinal virtues. Rather, both disciplines rejected all received ideas unless they could be verified by empirical research.