More than 2 hours discussing my book on Descartes with 2 outstanding speakers and many other great scholars! I am flattered by all positive remarks and important engagement with my book. And tired! #descartes #17thcentury #cartesianism #histsci

Leeuwenhoek on trees🪵and the expertise of carpenters (artisans) to produce better, thicker and stronger🌳plants🌲in the political-economic importance of timber #envhist #histsci #plantstudies #artisans #timber

About my passion project from the Yale University Press website: https://t.co/y0TSZBlBFG

Il discorso alla nazione di Zelensky di questa sera sta venendo condiviso su praticamente tutte le piattaforme online in Ucraina e raccoglie prevalentemente reazioni positive: non accadeva da mesi e forse da anni. Il succo del discorso è riassumibile in questa frase: “Siamo

Next Wednesday, 26 November, in Rome we will discuss #Galileo and the birth of modern science with Michele Camerota, Franco Giudice and Beatrice Sisana #histsci #17thcentury #science Join us if around!

A new series seminar on Descartes's Regulae ad directionem ingenio #descartes #cartesianevent #17thcentury #histphilo #method

Today in class, we discussed winds and pollution, especially reading John Evelyn's Fumifugium (1661). Authors of the time acknowledged that fumes and exhalations affected and damaged nature - flowers 🌺🪻🌷🌹and animals like bees 🐝 #conenvhist #environment #histsci #pollution

https://t.co/yhIvN2hP4z see it here

In my contribution, I discuss the study of sap motion🌳, as a key divide surface in the interpretation of this movement either as active or passive. This has a fundamental bearing on #plantlife #activelife #physics #histsci #vegscilif🌿

This is the link: https://t.co/Fpn6i50Yfn My introduction is open access! #gardenslab #vegscilif #planthistory

My special issue on🌱gardens and plants as laboratories🌿of premodern science is out on @royalsociety #notesandrecords #histplants #histsci #vegscilif #envhist with articles by me, Luzzini on minerals, @johedesan on Guy de La Brosse, @DJalobeanu on Bacon, and Benharrech🌲

The panel concerns those practices, or instruments in domains such as mining, agriculture, land management and so on. See the cfp here:

📣CFP HSS-ESHS 2026 joint conference (13-16 July) in Edinburg. Here attached, a proposal for a panel on "Artisans, Practitioners, and Instruments in Premodern Science"⛏️ - share or apply #practices #labor #artisans #artifacts #instruments #hss #histsci Image from Agostino Gallo

We are deep into discussing what to be a "follower" or a Cartesian means , and what it means to be a good Cartesian #Descartes #descarteslab #17thcentury #histphilo

we concluded a long morning of discussions about #plantillustrations and #plantimages with a visit at the small Kircher museum at Liceo Visconti #histsci #kircher @BiblHertz #visualknowledge

Open source (free access) article by Giulia Carabelli @g_carabelli - Making Home with Plants: Pandemic Edition, in the Cambridge Journal of Anthropology "...discusses the roles of houseplants in making home and building worlds." https://t.co/k8Fbqawob6

this morning, one of my students pointed out to Ambrogio Lorenzetti's fresco the Art of God and Bad Government. Students are sometimes amazing and inspiring - this outlines the relationship between agriculture and medieval feudalization #conenvhist #environment #agriculture

The trees were talking. And no one had been listening. For decades, foresters believed trees were competitors—silent giants fighting for sunlight, water, and space. Cut down the weak ones, they said, and the strong would thrive. But Dr. Suzanne Simard, a Canadian forest

https://t.co/1gajGYDcDG My interview (in Italian) at RSI (Swiss Radio), in which I discuss the importance of plant studies and the history of science in understanding ecology and the environment! #plantstudies #histsci #conenvhist #plantintelligence

@brdngswtgrs and @SumanaSiliguri

Despite being little known, Non-Eurocentric views are important, even in this recent field of investigation🍀-🌲and these 2 books are mandatory readings!🌱 #IndigenousPeoplesDay #plantstudies #plantintelligence I hope we can improve our experience with plants, enlarging our focus