The Legacy of Botanical Latin : On Naming and Knowing Plants and the Issue of Universal Intelligibility.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Petrella, Erin.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2026.

Summary:

Traces the development of botanical Latin and nomenclature from antiquity until the present day.

Contents:

Cover

Halftitle page

Series page

Title page

Copyright page

Dedication

Contents

Figures

Preface

Acknowledgments

Note on Translations

Abbreviations

Introduction

Botanical Latin

Methodology

1 Pliny the Elder's Historia Naturalis: The Origins of Botanical Latin and Nomenclature

Scholarship on Pliny

Binomials and Plant Identification in Pliny

Nomina nuda (Bare Names)

Pliny's Rhetorical Digression

Critiquing the Greeks: Asclepiades

Critiquing the Greeks: Theophrastus

Conclusion

2 Otto Brunfels' Reception of Pliny

Plinian Reception: The Reference Sphere

Alii viderint (Let Others See to It)

Brunfels' Latin: Transforming the Reference Sphere

Herbae nudae (Bare Herbs)

Iudicia nostra (My Opinions)

3 Botany from Leonhard Fuchs to Linnaeus and Beyond

Botanical Texts in the Sixteenth Century

Fuchs on Brunfels

Gauchblům (Nasturtium agreste)

The Seventeenth Century

Linnaeus and the Eighteenth Century

Post-Linnaeus

4 Botanical Latin and Nomenclature in the Twentieth Century

Plant Exploration in the Americas

The Institutionalization of Botanical Latin

Botanical Latin Post-1935: Debating the Latin Requirement

5 Current Debates and Visual Communication

Colonization in Nomenclature

The Role of the Visual in Intelligibility: Scientific Specimens and Illustrations

Scientific Knowledge and Methods of Knowing

Visual Communication and Knowledge

Intelligibility

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

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ISBN:

1-350-50967-1

1-350-50968-X