Seeds of Knowledge: Unveiling Hidden Information through Letters and Gardens in Bologna, Turin and Uppsala. Managlia, A., Mossetti, U., & Dröscher, A. HoST Journal for History of Science and Technology, 5:17-29, 2012.
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Travel and exchange of persons, objects, technologies, skills and ideas, though practiced at all times of humankind, are two of the most particular characteristics of the modern Western world. The exchange of seeds and of the information concerning them deserves a special importance in the history of agriculture and botany. On the one hand, seeds were simple and inexpensive to store and to travel, on the other hand they exposed botanists and gardeners to unexpected conceptual and technical challenges. We will first describe some of the particular features of the information contained in seeds, namely their delay in time and space. In the case of Bolognese botanist Ferdinando Bassi (1710-1774) and his extensive correspondence with other botanists like Linnaeus, we highlight how late 18th-century scholars handled the hidden knowledge contained in these plain little objects.
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 abstract = {Travel and exchange of persons, objects, technologies, skills and ideas, though practiced at all times of humankind, are two of the most particular characteristics of the modern Western world. The exchange of seeds and of the information concerning them deserves a special importance in the history of agriculture and botany. On the one hand, seeds were simple and inexpensive to store and to travel, on the other hand they exposed botanists and gardeners to unexpected conceptual and technical challenges. We will first describe some of the particular features of the information contained in seeds, namely their delay in time and space. In the case of Bolognese botanist Ferdinando Bassi (1710-1774) and his extensive correspondence with other botanists like Linnaeus, we highlight how late 18th-century scholars handled the hidden knowledge contained in these plain little objects.},
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