Il Museo di Storia Naturale dell'Università di Firenze – Le collezioni botaniche
Le collezioni botaniche
- Edited by:
- Mauro Raffaelli,
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.
- Keywords:
- Storia Naturale,
- Botanica,
- Biologia,
- Museo di storia naturale,
- Firenze,
- DOI: 10.36253/978-88-8453-956-4
- Series: Cataloghi e collezioni
- Scientific Board: Consiglio Editoriale FUP 2007-2010
- Language: Italian
- Subjects: Plant Science Museology
University of Florence, Italy
- Publication Year: 2009
- Pages: 352
- eISBN: 978-88-8453-956-4
- Content License: CC BY-ND 3.0 IT
- © 2009 Author(s)
- Publication Year: 2009
- eISBN: 978-88-9273-847-8
- Content License: CC BY-ND 3.0 IT
- © 2009 Author(s)
- Publication Year: 2009
- Pages: 352
- ISBN: 978-88-8453-955-7
- Content License: CC BY-ND 3.0 IT
- © 2009 Author(s)
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Book Title
Il Museo di Storia Naturale dell'Università di Firenze – Le collezioni botaniche
Book Subtitle
Le collezioni botaniche
Editors
Mauro Raffaelli
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
352
Publication Year
2009
Copyright Information
© 2009 Author(s)
Content License
Metadata License
Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-8453-956-4
ISBN Print
978-88-8453-955-7
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-8453-956-4
eISBN (xml)
978-88-9273-847-8
Series Title
Cataloghi e collezioni
Series ISSN
2704-5854
Series E-ISSN
2704-6044
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