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It builds on the fact that there are species of plants that open or close their flowers at set times of day. He proposed the concept in his 1751 publication Philosophia Botanica, calling it the horologium florae (lit. ' flower clock '). [4] His observations of how plants changed over time are summarised in several publications.
To understand the objectives of the Philosophia Botanica it is first necessary to appreciate the state of botanical nomenclature at the time of Linnaeus. In accordance with the provisions of the present-day International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi and plants the starting point for the scientific names of plants effectively dates back to the list of species enumerated in Linnaeus's ...
Tommaso Campanella's house at Stilo Former Dominican convent at Placanica. Tommaso Campanella OP (Italian: [tomˈmaːzo kampaˈnɛlla]; 5 September 1568 – 21 May 1639), [1] baptized Giovanni Domenico Campanella, was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, theologian, astrologer, and poet.
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (/ ə ˈ ɡ r ɪ p ə /; German:; 14 September 1486 – 18 February 1535) was a German Renaissance polymath, physician, legal scholar, soldier, knight, theologian, and occult writer.
The perennial philosophy (Latin: philosophia perennis), [note 1] also referred to as perennialism and perennial wisdom, is a school of thought in philosophy and spirituality that posits that the recurrence of common themes across world religions illuminates universal truths about the nature of reality, humanity, ethics, and consciousness.
In the Philosophia Botanica § 159 Linnaeus had stated that a genus of plants was a group of species possessing similarly constructed organs of fructification, i.e. flowers and fruits, and hence distinguishable by these from other genera. [25] Some examples of the aphorisms (principles) concerned with genera are given below:
Una speziala Padovana: Lettere di philosophia naturale di Camilla Erculiani (1584). Italian Studies 68. 2 (2013), 202-29. Corrispondenze scientifiche tra Cinquecento e Seicento. Camilla Erculiani, Lettere di philosophia naturale ed. by Eleonora Carinci; Margherita Sarrocchi, Lettere a Galileo, ed. by Sandra Plastina. Lugano: Agorà, 2016. Cox ...
Pedro Hurtado de Mendoza entered the Jesuit order in 1595 in Salamanca.He was a teacher of theology and philosophy in Valladolid and he occupied a chair at the University of Salamanca.