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Acknowledgments 6 Contents 8 List of Illustrations 10 List of Contributors 14 Foreword 16 Introduction: The World of Plants in Premodern Medical Knowledge 18 A More Modern Order: Virtual Collaboration in the Roccabonella Herbal 34 Mediterranean Botany. Making Cross-Cultural Knowledge about Materia Medica in the Sixteenth Century 68 A Bridge to the Underworld? An Explanation of the Act of Digging up Plant Roots in Early Modern Medical Fictions 86 Not just a Garden of Simples: Arranging the Growing Floristic Diversity in the Leiden Botanical Garden (1594–1740) 114 From the Analogy with Animals to the Anatomy of Plants in Medicine: The Physiology of Living Processes from Harvey to Malpighi 136 Opium Taking: Blurring Experimentation and Pharmaceutical Theories 160 The Accommodation of New World Plants in Early Modern Pharmacology: The Case of Cinchona Bark and the Challenges to Seventeenth-Century Galenism 184 Knots in a Web: Botany, Materia Medica, and South Asian Languages in the Publication of Paul Hermann’s Ceylon-Herbaria (ca. 1690–1770) 212 Bibliography 226 Index 268

Author

Fabrizio Baldassarri;

Language

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