By Florike Egmond
This shiny research explores the best way eu wisdom of the flora and fauna was once reworked throughout the past due 16th and early 17th centuries. in accordance with a wide choice of fundamental resource fabric - commonly correspondence - Egmond investigates horticultural suggestions, models within the selection of infrequent vegetation, botanical experimentation and strategies of medical overview, in addition to monitoring the trade of data. vital to this task is the determine of Carolus Clusius (1526-1609), the 1st actually medical botanist. The transformation of people's daily event with crops is proven throughout the useful manifestations of this newly stumbled on fervour: the expansion of accumulating, backyard exhibit and fascination with the infrequent and unique.
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1607); and Jean Boisot (d. in or shortly before 1602), a nobleman and owner of a private botanical garden in Brussels. The fiercely Protestant Houchin lived near the village of Annezin not far from Bethune in the Pas de Calais, where he had a castle and a church built. Given the proximity of his region to Arras, Clusius’s birthplace, it is possible that the two men had known each other since their youth, but the extant letters from Houchin to Clusius all date from the last twenty years of their lives.
Boisot, 17 May 1590). Looking among his aristolochia plants, he marked the one with the largest and blackest flowers, to see whether its fruit would also be the roundest, in order to send its seeds to Clusius. 12 Practical experience, based on observation and experiment, thus went together with erudition, an interest in plant identification and a great curiosity concerning new plants. In his detailed descriptions concerning his experience with the propagation of bulbs, Boisot uses some interesting terms, which suggest that he – and probably many of his contemporaries – thought, implicitly or not, about the propagation of bulbs in terms of human family descent.
In or shortly before 1602), a nobleman and owner of a private botanical garden in Brussels. The fiercely Protestant Houchin lived near the village of Annezin not far from Bethune in the Pas de Calais, where he had a castle and a church built. Given the proximity of his region to Arras, Clusius’s birthplace, it is possible that the two men had known each other since their youth, but the extant letters from Houchin to Clusius all date from the last twenty years of their lives. They testify to Houchin’s erudition in botanical matters and his long-standing interest in rare plants and his garden – from which Houchin was occasionally distracted by politics, religion, his new wife or in later years by gout.