Fabrizio Baldassarri
@fabribald.bsky.social
RTT/Ass.Prof. Roma3- early modern natural philo - #DescartesLab - sciences, medicine, and plant philo🌱💭/plant studies🌿🔬MSCA Ca' Foscari/Indiana U - Warburg/I Tatti fellow / #ConEnvHIst - Seminar EM Plant Knowledge #VegSciLif #plantstudies
On rural observator - the experience of rustics in Robert Plot's The Natural History of Stafford-Shire #environment #historyofwinds #naturalhistory #health #air #conenvhist #histsci #histphilo #histmed
November 18, 2025 at 11:17 AM
On rural observator - the experience of rustics in Robert Plot's The Natural History of Stafford-Shire #environment #historyofwinds #naturalhistory #health #air #conenvhist #histsci #histphilo #histmed
one of the central questions of my article, in which I explore the ascent of sap, is to focus on the ways premodern scholars interpreted this motion either as passive or active. This has crucial consequences on their definition of plant life #plantlife #vegscilif #histsci #ascentsap #17thcentury🌿
November 17, 2025 at 11:37 AM
one of the central questions of my article, in which I explore the ascent of sap, is to focus on the ways premodern scholars interpreted this motion either as passive or active. This has crucial consequences on their definition of plant life #plantlife #vegscilif #histsci #ascentsap #17thcentury🌿
My special issue on gardens and plants as laboratories of premodern science is out on @royalsocietypublishing.org #notesandrecords #nrrs #histplants #histsci #vegscilif #envhist with articles by me, Luzzini on minerals, @johedesan.bsky.social on Guy de La Brosse, Jalobeanu on Bacon, and Benharrech🌱
November 17, 2025 at 11:07 AM
My special issue on gardens and plants as laboratories of premodern science is out on @royalsocietypublishing.org #notesandrecords #nrrs #histplants #histsci #vegscilif #envhist with articles by me, Luzzini on minerals, @johedesan.bsky.social on Guy de La Brosse, Jalobeanu on Bacon, and Benharrech🌱
Francis Bacon on the ways burning of heather in Sussex produced winds that damaged the vines of Bordeaux #pollution #environment #agriculture #vine #vino #conenvhist #environmentalstudies #envhist #histsci #Bacon #air
November 14, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Francis Bacon on the ways burning of heather in Sussex produced winds that damaged the vines of Bordeaux #pollution #environment #agriculture #vine #vino #conenvhist #environmentalstudies #envhist #histsci #Bacon #air
📣CFP HSS-ESHS 2026 joint conference - 13-16 July 2026 in Edinburg. Here attached, a proposal for a panel on "Artisans, Practitioners, and Instruments in the Making of Premodern Science" - share or send me an abstract #practices #labor #artisans #artifacts #instruments #hss
Image from Agostino Gallo
Image from Agostino Gallo
November 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
📣CFP HSS-ESHS 2026 joint conference - 13-16 July 2026 in Edinburg. Here attached, a proposal for a panel on "Artisans, Practitioners, and Instruments in the Making of Premodern Science" - share or send me an abstract #practices #labor #artisans #artifacts #instruments #hss
Image from Agostino Gallo
Image from Agostino Gallo
book launch of my🌿"Filosofia e scienza delle piante nel Seicento"🌱- in Rome at La Sapienza, with the participation of Riccardo Pozzo - on November 13, at 2,15 pm (CET)
I am very happy for this - I will present a paper on #plantsandmetaphysics #histsci #plantstudies #histplants 🌳
I am very happy for this - I will present a paper on #plantsandmetaphysics #histsci #plantstudies #histplants 🌳
November 11, 2025 at 11:12 AM
book launch of my🌿"Filosofia e scienza delle piante nel Seicento"🌱- in Rome at La Sapienza, with the participation of Riccardo Pozzo - on November 13, at 2,15 pm (CET)
I am very happy for this - I will present a paper on #plantsandmetaphysics #histsci #plantstudies #histplants 🌳
I am very happy for this - I will present a paper on #plantsandmetaphysics #histsci #plantstudies #histplants 🌳
wrapping my presentation for this beautiful seminar at @bhmpi.bsky.social on Thursday morning (Rome time)🌿
#plantstudies #botany #premodernscience #histsci #arthistory 🌱
Do images have an epistemic role in botanical science?
#plantstudies #botany #premodernscience #histsci #arthistory 🌱
Do images have an epistemic role in botanical science?
November 4, 2025 at 2:47 PM
wrapping my presentation for this beautiful seminar at @bhmpi.bsky.social on Thursday morning (Rome time)🌿
#plantstudies #botany #premodernscience #histsci #arthistory 🌱
Do images have an epistemic role in botanical science?
#plantstudies #botany #premodernscience #histsci #arthistory 🌱
Do images have an epistemic role in botanical science?
apparently, I have obtained my habilitation as a Full Professor in history of science #histsci #academiclife by the Italian ministry!
November 4, 2025 at 12:57 PM
apparently, I have obtained my habilitation as a Full Professor in history of science #histsci #academiclife by the Italian ministry!
From Pier Crescenzi's Ruralia commoda
On vines 🍇
On vines 🍇
October 31, 2025 at 11:13 AM
From Pier Crescenzi's Ruralia commoda
On vines 🍇
On vines 🍇
Happy to share that the panel on 🍷wine🍇 I organized has been accepted for next @renaissancesociety.bsky.social #RSA #RSASanFrancisco26 #RSA26 #Vino #Wine #ConEnvHist
Below the panel⤵️
I look forward to exploring this topic
Join us if you are around! #histsci #environment #environmentalhistory
Below the panel⤵️
I look forward to exploring this topic
Join us if you are around! #histsci #environment #environmentalhistory
October 30, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Happy to share that the panel on 🍷wine🍇 I organized has been accepted for next @renaissancesociety.bsky.social #RSA #RSASanFrancisco26 #RSA26 #Vino #Wine #ConEnvHist
Below the panel⤵️
I look forward to exploring this topic
Join us if you are around! #histsci #environment #environmentalhistory
Below the panel⤵️
I look forward to exploring this topic
Join us if you are around! #histsci #environment #environmentalhistory
October 23, 2025 at 11:07 AM
November 29th, I take part in this very promising seminar at ENS in Paris on the intersections of plant and cultural studies in the early modern time. #plantstudies #17thcentury #histsci #materialhistory
I look very forward to this!
I am in Paris from this Friday - happy to catch up with friends!
I look very forward to this!
I am in Paris from this Friday - happy to catch up with friends!
October 20, 2025 at 9:36 AM
November 29th, I take part in this very promising seminar at ENS in Paris on the intersections of plant and cultural studies in the early modern time. #plantstudies #17thcentury #histsci #materialhistory
I look very forward to this!
I am in Paris from this Friday - happy to catch up with friends!
I look very forward to this!
I am in Paris from this Friday - happy to catch up with friends!
a very nice book review of the volume Descartes and Medicine has been published on the #EuropeanJournalHistoryMedicineandHealth @degruyterbrill.bsky.social
The book is here: www.brepols.net/products/IS-... @brepols.net #Descartes #17thcentury #histsci #histphilo
See here
brill.com/view/journal...
The book is here: www.brepols.net/products/IS-... @brepols.net #Descartes #17thcentury #histsci #histphilo
See here
brill.com/view/journal...
October 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
a very nice book review of the volume Descartes and Medicine has been published on the #EuropeanJournalHistoryMedicineandHealth @degruyterbrill.bsky.social
The book is here: www.brepols.net/products/IS-... @brepols.net #Descartes #17thcentury #histsci #histphilo
See here
brill.com/view/journal...
The book is here: www.brepols.net/products/IS-... @brepols.net #Descartes #17thcentury #histsci #histphilo
See here
brill.com/view/journal...
Tomorrow, I teach early modern medicine and the environment and I'll use this chapter by Federica Rotelli on American plants and early modern Galenic pharmacology published in a volume I edited
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
October 14, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Tomorrow, I teach early modern medicine and the environment and I'll use this chapter by Federica Rotelli on American plants and early modern Galenic pharmacology published in a volume I edited
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
More than 50 scholars joined us today for the presentation of my book on Descartes. Many thanks to Igor Agostini and the Centro Dipartimentale di Studi su Descartes, who made It possibile, to Daniel Garber and Deborah Brown for their deep and nice comments, and the engaging discussion!
October 6, 2025 at 9:37 PM
More than 50 scholars joined us today for the presentation of my book on Descartes. Many thanks to Igor Agostini and the Centro Dipartimentale di Studi su Descartes, who made It possibile, to Daniel Garber and Deborah Brown for their deep and nice comments, and the engaging discussion!
Getting ready for my course: Ecologies of Knowledge - @unimi (Historical Studies)
#environmentalstudies #environmentalhistory #envhist #ConEnvHist #histsci #workshop #17thcenturystudies I will map the pre-history of ecological thinking in different fields #ecology #plantstudies #courses #history
#environmentalstudies #environmentalhistory #envhist #ConEnvHist #histsci #workshop #17thcenturystudies I will map the pre-history of ecological thinking in different fields #ecology #plantstudies #courses #history
October 2, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Getting ready for my course: Ecologies of Knowledge - @unimi (Historical Studies)
#environmentalstudies #environmentalhistory #envhist #ConEnvHist #histsci #workshop #17thcenturystudies I will map the pre-history of ecological thinking in different fields #ecology #plantstudies #courses #history
#environmentalstudies #environmentalhistory #envhist #ConEnvHist #histsci #workshop #17thcenturystudies I will map the pre-history of ecological thinking in different fields #ecology #plantstudies #courses #history
#Bluehistorians #Skystorians
Happy to share this event, part of #ConEnvHist project on the environment♻️and botany🌿
In Milan, Oct13 with some great colleagues on practices and theories of knowledge. Attendance is free
@sergiooe.bsky.social
#environmentalstudies #environment #histsci #agriculture
Happy to share this event, part of #ConEnvHist project on the environment♻️and botany🌿
In Milan, Oct13 with some great colleagues on practices and theories of knowledge. Attendance is free
@sergiooe.bsky.social
#environmentalstudies #environment #histsci #agriculture
August 27, 2025 at 1:15 PM
#Bluehistorians #Skystorians
Happy to share this event, part of #ConEnvHist project on the environment♻️and botany🌿
In Milan, Oct13 with some great colleagues on practices and theories of knowledge. Attendance is free
@sergiooe.bsky.social
#environmentalstudies #environment #histsci #agriculture
Happy to share this event, part of #ConEnvHist project on the environment♻️and botany🌿
In Milan, Oct13 with some great colleagues on practices and theories of knowledge. Attendance is free
@sergiooe.bsky.social
#environmentalstudies #environment #histsci #agriculture
Vino🍷🍇: Agriculture, Medicine, Symbolism and Conviviality. For a Natural History of Wine in the Renaissance 🍾
My cfp for a panel at #RSA26 #RsaSanFrancisco #RSA2026
#HIstsci #histmed #histagriculture #arthistory
Apply if interested - send me a short abstract
www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...
My cfp for a panel at #RSA26 #RsaSanFrancisco #RSA2026
#HIstsci #histmed #histagriculture #arthistory
Apply if interested - send me a short abstract
www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...
July 6, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Vino🍷🍇: Agriculture, Medicine, Symbolism and Conviviality. For a Natural History of Wine in the Renaissance 🍾
My cfp for a panel at #RSA26 #RsaSanFrancisco #RSA2026
#HIstsci #histmed #histagriculture #arthistory
Apply if interested - send me a short abstract
www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...
My cfp for a panel at #RSA26 #RsaSanFrancisco #RSA2026
#HIstsci #histmed #histagriculture #arthistory
Apply if interested - send me a short abstract
www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...
A less-known pharmacist is Bartolomeo Maranta - a former student of Luca Ghini - who worked with plants in Naples (in a garden of Giovan Vincenzo Pinelli) and published a fascinating Method on studying plants in 1559 --- several years before Cesalpino, but also Pena and Lobel #plantstudies #histsci
June 16, 2025 at 1:54 PM
A less-known pharmacist is Bartolomeo Maranta - a former student of Luca Ghini - who worked with plants in Naples (in a garden of Giovan Vincenzo Pinelli) and published a fascinating Method on studying plants in 1559 --- several years before Cesalpino, but also Pena and Lobel #plantstudies #histsci
In Pisa #OrtoBotanico1543 to celebrate #AndreCesalpino #500years and plant systematics #taxonomy #histsci #plantstudies #plantknowledge #botany
From the Renaissance to today's science, Cesalpino is a fascinating scholar. Happy to contribute with a presentation about his life and work
From the Renaissance to today's science, Cesalpino is a fascinating scholar. Happy to contribute with a presentation about his life and work
June 5, 2025 at 2:36 PM
In Pisa #OrtoBotanico1543 to celebrate #AndreCesalpino #500years and plant systematics #taxonomy #histsci #plantstudies #plantknowledge #botany
From the Renaissance to today's science, Cesalpino is a fascinating scholar. Happy to contribute with a presentation about his life and work
From the Renaissance to today's science, Cesalpino is a fascinating scholar. Happy to contribute with a presentation about his life and work
Today: Seminar in Theoretical Philosophy at UniFi on #plantstudies in early modern natural philosophy - mainly, discussing 2 alternatives to Aristotelianism: plant-machines and plant-intelligence
Tomorrow: 500-year celebration for Andrea #Cesalpino with a keynote
#histsci #histplants #botany
Tomorrow: 500-year celebration for Andrea #Cesalpino with a keynote
#histsci #histplants #botany
June 4, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Today: Seminar in Theoretical Philosophy at UniFi on #plantstudies in early modern natural philosophy - mainly, discussing 2 alternatives to Aristotelianism: plant-machines and plant-intelligence
Tomorrow: 500-year celebration for Andrea #Cesalpino with a keynote
#histsci #histplants #botany
Tomorrow: 500-year celebration for Andrea #Cesalpino with a keynote
#histsci #histplants #botany
Next Early Modern Lab at NTU - organized by Dana Jalobeanu - features Gideon Manning on visualizing nature with text and image #visualizingknowledge #visualizingscience #illustrations #17thcentury
June 2, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Next Early Modern Lab at NTU - organized by Dana Jalobeanu - features Gideon Manning on visualizing nature with text and image #visualizingknowledge #visualizingscience #illustrations #17thcentury
📣 #bluestorians #skystorians Happy to share that on October 6th, 2025, I discuss my book on #Descartes with Dan Garber and Deb Brown - who are 2 of the major Cartesian scholars of our time - chair: Igor Agostini #17thcent #earlymodern #histphilo #individualbodies
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
May 30, 2025 at 1:20 PM
📣 #bluestorians #skystorians Happy to share that on October 6th, 2025, I discuss my book on #Descartes with Dan Garber and Deb Brown - who are 2 of the major Cartesian scholars of our time - chair: Igor Agostini #17thcent #earlymodern #histphilo #individualbodies
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
