Moving Plants

this page focuses on moving and circulating exotic plants, such as self-moving plants and other zoophites, or vegetal monstrosities in early modern Europe

[manipulatingflora @manipulatingfl1]

an interesting online course on plant intelligence! #planthumanities #plantstudies #plantintelligence 🧠🌱🌿

[Fabrizio Baldassarri @FabrizioBaldas6]

📣 my article on the interconnection between the study of water pressure💧and the ascent of sap🌱is now published online. It is part of a special issue on plants and laboratories in the em period. I focus on Hooke and Boyle's, Grew and Malpighi's experiment, with a note by Newton

[Mark Nesbitt @Economicbotany]

So hot off the press it is still warm! An Ancient Mesopotamian Herbal by Barbara Boeck, Shahina Ghazanfar, and Mark Nesbitt. In bookshops very soon https://t.co/KbaAp1Ufcd #histmed #pharmhist

[MINT Lab @MINTLab_umu]

Are plants intelligent? Join Paco for this discussion Friday November 17, 11am in Valladolid!

[The Plant Initiative @Plant_Init]

Plants Matter: Exploring the Becomings of Plants and People. New book edited by Luci Attala & Louise Steel from @UniWalesPress "Plants Matter explores how plants and people live together." "...not only...about the importance of plants and how people use them, but...argues also that knowing the world is achieved-with plants." https://t.co/finYDR2MqL

[Il Tascabile @ilTascabile]

“La riflessione filosofica ha trasformato le piante in attori ambientali, ristabilendo il giusto rapporto tra i corpi viventi”. Il dibattito sull’intelligenza nel mondo vegetale tra storia, filosofia, scienza e ambiente: https://t.co/8qjBlJIYFW

[MINT Lab @MINTLab_umu]

Do plants have emotions? Before you say no right away, perhaps read this: https://t.co/RbNktaabLb #plantasapiens #plantintelligence #plantemotions

[Fabrizio Baldassarri @FabrizioBaldas6]

Wrapping up for the 🌳 #PlantsandPhilo🍀 conference #VegSciLif #ManipulatingFlora #plantlife #histofscience

[Moving Plants @moving_plants]

@_Meli_P Impossibile

[Fabrizio Baldassarri @FabrizioBaldas6]

Programme available: Conference 🌳 Plants & Philosophy🌿 (Venice, May 30-31, 2023)
@CaFoscari @MSCActions @BloomingtonHps #CREMT #VegSciLif #manipulatingflora @TommyHilfigo and many other scholars!
Attendance is free either in person or online

[Moving Plants @moving_plants]

https://t.co/qAG0MJoPw9

[manipulatingflora @manipulatingfl1]

Plant it! 🪴

#VegSciLif International conference on May 30-31 in Venice on Plants & Philosophy🍀
Several very good scholars will present their research on the natural philosophical approach to plants! The program will be out soon!🌱
#manipulatingflora #cafoscari #PlantAndPhilo

[manipulatingflora @manipulatingfl1]

Next Meeting of the seminar is on February 11, with @menon_minakshi's talk on "'What is Indian spikenard?' William Jones’s Philology and Botany"
At 17.30h (Rome time) - alwas on zoom (all info in the poster 👇)

Attendance is free - everyone is welcome!
@BloomingtonHps @CaFoscari

[J. History of Ideas @JHIdeas]

Did the Tartary lamb, an animal body growing out of a plant, exist? Fabrizio Baldassarri (@FabrizioBaldas6 | @CaFoscari) follows the tale of the zoophyte through Renaissance texts on philosophy, natural magic & botany to highlight its value as a heuristic https://t.co/FVnxJVKQBQ

[Krea University @kreauniversity]

European knowledge, particularly in medicine, is sometimes described as "scientific" in contrast to non-European people's "empirical," non-theorised, indigenous traditions.

[Plant Humanities UK @PlantHums_UK]

#PlantThinking #PlantStories THE MIND OF PLANTS: NARRATIVES OF VEGETAL INTELLIGENCE by @Monica_Gagliano, John Charles Ryan & Patricia #Vieira @SynergeticPress Order book here: https://t.co/70SoZSuoC4 Online book launch here: https://t.co/6J5nxZRNc7 @RHGeoHumanities @KewScience

[Plant Humanities UK @PlantHums_UK]

THE PHILOSOPHICAL LIFE OF PLANTS new website by @PhilosophyRHUL @LLC_RHUL @kingsgerman @UWEBristol @Kew_LAA @KewScience & @Weimar_GSA https://t.co/O3xH4lgb52 Contributors include @PlantHums_UK @CarolineCornis1 https://t.co/m8Wq7J0mwp @ahrcpress @DanielleCSands @Economicbotany

[Catriona MacLeod @CatrionaMacL]

Benno Bloch left Breslau in 1939 on the Kinderstransport. In his suitcase: an album of pressed flowers, hand annotated by his mother, from their walks in the countryside. #goldregen #affectivealbums #americanswedishinstitute #kindertransport

[Bodleian Libraries @bodleianlibs]

The Oxford Botanic Garden was founded in 1621.

A new free exhibition with @OBGHA celebrates 400 years of Oxford botany - from a 17th c. medicinal herb garden to the collaborative research of today.

Roots to Seeds opens Tuesday 18 May, at Weston Library
https://t.co/rK4POW1rls