Touch Me Not: Sense and Sensibility in Early Modern Botany
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DOI: 10.1163/15733823-02356p02
Abstract: The history of early modern botany is studded with stories of discovery, identification, recognition, and accommodation. One of these stories refers to the plant known to early modern observers as ‘sensitive plant’ and mimosa pudica.… read more here.
Keywords: botany; sensibility early; modern botany; early modern ... See more keywords