The Role of Sensory Qualities in Renaissance Natural History: The Case of Mattioli's Herbal
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15733823-00256P02" target="_blank" >10.1163/15733823-00256P02</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Role of Sensory Qualities in Renaissance Natural History: The Case of Mattioli's Herbal
Original language description
The aim of this paper is to show how sensory qualities were used to identify, observe, and describe plants in the sixteenth century. Mattioli's herbal is an example of Renaissance natural history, which was based on Dioscorides' classical text. Each step of constructing a chapter of the herbal required a different approach to sensory qualities. The identification of the plants described by Dioscorides called for detailed philological work and a good knowledge of the meaning of each term used for tastes, smells or colours. Descriptions were compared with living plants, while all plant parts and their properties had to be thoroughly examined. Taste was an important tool in establishing an affinity of a new plant with a plant from Dioscorides' text, because gustatory qualities were regarded as closely related to plant nature. Visual qualities such as shape and colour were then especially useful in distinguishing varieties of particular plants.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA15-06802S" target="_blank" >GA15-06802S: Renaissance Philosophy and Science</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Early Science and Medicine
ISSN
1383-7427
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
25
Issue of the periodical within the volume
6
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
19
Pages from-to
543-561
UT code for WoS article
000625187600002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85102340325