Botanical Garden of Padova

Description

From the time the Botanical Garden of Padua came into being (1545), the idea was always that, along with the site intended for “planting, ordering and preserving” plant life recognizable via the senses, there should be spaces for studying the subject of medicines — ‘fondarie’ and ‘distillatorie’ — and places to keep “minerals, soils, stones and jewels”, also marine and terrestrial animals and birds, so as to create, as it were, a museum or theatre of the world, explorable via the categories of science known at the time.

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Metadata last updated on 2025-01-18 09:02:03.0