Il Museo di Storia Naturale dell'Universit d̉i Firenze - Le collezioni botaniche Le collezioni botaniche
Raffaelli, Mauro
Il Museo di Storia Naturale dell'Universit d̉i Firenze - Le collezioni botaniche Le collezioni botaniche - Florence Firenze University Press 2009 - 1 electronic resource (352 p.) - Cataloghi e collezioni 6 .
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The Natural History Museum of the University of Florence, founded in 1775 by Grand-Duke Pietro Leopold, is the oldest scientific museum in Europe. With this second volume on the Botanical Collection, Florence University Press continues its series dedicated to the six Sections of the Museum. The first part of the volume recounts the birth of botanical sciences in Florence and the history of the museum collections from sixteenth century to today. Then follows the second part which describes the historical and modern Herbaria, for each of which the main events that went to their formation, the importance of the plants they contain and biographical information on those who built the collections are described. The third section expounds the other collections in the Botanical Section of the Museum, among which of particular interest are the wax models of plants and fruits, manufactured by the old Grand-ducal Ceroplastics Laboratory, the wood collection, plaster of Paris mushrooms and the eighteenth century still life paintings of fruits and vegetables by Bartolomeo Bimbi. Finally, the last part illustrates the importance that herbaria play today in modern scientific research, drawing attention to the fact that they are an archive that holds taxonomical, chorological and ecological information in function of the plants they contain, as well as historical-biographical information on the scholars who, through their efforts, built up the collections.
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Italian
978-88-8453-956-4 9788884539557 9788884539564 9788892738478
10.36253/978-88-8453-956-4 doi
Botany & plant sciences
Biologia Botanica Firenze Museo di storia naturale Storia Naturale
Il Museo di Storia Naturale dell'Universit d̉i Firenze - Le collezioni botaniche Le collezioni botaniche - Florence Firenze University Press 2009 - 1 electronic resource (352 p.) - Cataloghi e collezioni 6 .
Open Access
The Natural History Museum of the University of Florence, founded in 1775 by Grand-Duke Pietro Leopold, is the oldest scientific museum in Europe. With this second volume on the Botanical Collection, Florence University Press continues its series dedicated to the six Sections of the Museum. The first part of the volume recounts the birth of botanical sciences in Florence and the history of the museum collections from sixteenth century to today. Then follows the second part which describes the historical and modern Herbaria, for each of which the main events that went to their formation, the importance of the plants they contain and biographical information on those who built the collections are described. The third section expounds the other collections in the Botanical Section of the Museum, among which of particular interest are the wax models of plants and fruits, manufactured by the old Grand-ducal Ceroplastics Laboratory, the wood collection, plaster of Paris mushrooms and the eighteenth century still life paintings of fruits and vegetables by Bartolomeo Bimbi. Finally, the last part illustrates the importance that herbaria play today in modern scientific research, drawing attention to the fact that they are an archive that holds taxonomical, chorological and ecological information in function of the plants they contain, as well as historical-biographical information on the scholars who, through their efforts, built up the collections.
Creative Commons
Italian
978-88-8453-956-4 9788884539557 9788884539564 9788892738478
10.36253/978-88-8453-956-4 doi
Botany & plant sciences
Biologia Botanica Firenze Museo di storia naturale Storia Naturale