{"id":838,"date":"2016-02-25T09:42:56","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T08:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forschungingotha.wordpress.com\/?p=838"},"modified":"2016-02-25T09:42:56","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T08:42:56","slug":"vortrag-am-3-marz-2016-dr-fabrizio-baldassarri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gotha3.de\/forschungsblog\/archives\/838","title":{"rendered":"Vortrag am 3. M\u00e4rz 2016: Dr. Fabrizio Baldassarri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Am Donnerstag, 3<strong>. M\u00e4rz 2016<\/strong>, l\u00e4dt das Forschungszentrum Gotha der Universit\u00e4t Erfurt ein zum <strong>Vortrag von Fabrizio Baldassarri.<\/strong> Er spricht \u00fcber <strong>\u201eFrom <em>scientia de anima<\/em> to sciences of life. The basic functions of the vegetative soul in Descartes&#8216; natural philosophy\u201c<\/strong>. Beginn ist um <strong>17:15 Uhr<\/strong> im <strong>Seminarraum des Forschungszentrums<\/strong> auf dem Gothaer Friedenstein und, wie immer, sind alle Interessierten herzlich willkommen.<\/p>\n<p>Da der Vortrag in englischer Sprache gehalten wird, folgt hier auch eine englischsprachige Ank\u00fcndigung:<\/p>\n<p>Although botany has always been considered missing from Ren\u00e9 Descartes\u2019 natural philosophy, his correspondence testifies to his interest in plants. This interest can be mostly found in the years after the publication of the <em>Discours de la M\u00e9thode <\/em>(1637), when Descartes was working with Henricus Reneri on the internal structure of plants and discussed some items with Marin Mersenne.<\/p>\n<p>First, there will be a reconstruction of the details of Descartes\u2019 botanical interest. While he required catalogues and seeds, the prevalent carriers of botanical doctrine at the time, Descartes criticized the botanical knowledge of his contemporaries and proposed to substitute it with his own methodology. The second part of the talk will focus on Descartes\u2019 main goal in his botanical studies: the understanding of life. In a few important (and overlooked) biomedical notes, Descartes discussed plants while delving into the basic features of life. Reconstructing accretion, nutrition, and generation in mechanical terms, Descartes tackled the functions traditionally attributed to the vegetative soul. This work articulates a (more) exhaustive science of life within Descartes\u2019 mechanical natural philosophy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fabrizio Baldassarri<\/strong> is DAAD-Fellow at the Forschungszentrum Gotha. Since his PhD thesis on Descartes\u2019 natural history, his work focuses on Descartes\u2019 methodology, especially on the <em>scientia<\/em> and methodological procedures (<em>comparatio, enumeratio, inductio<\/em>) of the <em>Regulae ad directionem ingenii<\/em>, and their application in Descartes\u2019 natural philosophy. He is working on Descartes\u2019 bio-medical studies, reconstructing an alternative interpretation of Descartes\u2019 life science.<\/p>\n<p>Image: Jonas Suyderhoef, engraving: Ren\u00e9 Descartes (1596-1650), via Wikimedia Commons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Am Donnerstag, 3. M\u00e4rz 2016, l\u00e4dt das Forschungszentrum Gotha der Universit\u00e4t Erfurt ein zum Vortrag von Fabrizio Baldassarri. Er spricht \u00fcber \u201eFrom scientia de anima to sciences of life. The basic functions of the vegetative soul in Descartes&#8216; natural philosophy\u201c. Beginn ist um 17:15 Uhr im Seminarraum des Forschungszentrums auf dem Gothaer Friedenstein und, wie &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gotha3.de\/forschungsblog\/archives\/838\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u201eVortrag am 3. 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