The importance of gardens as places to cure the mind from sad thoughts was acknowledged by René Descartes (1596-1650) in his epistolary exchange with Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia (1618-1680).1 The claim was not unconventional and it marked a continuity in the representation of gardens as spaces of philosoph-ical inspiration throughout Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and early modernity.
Introduction Gardens as Laboratories. A History of Botanical Sciences / F. Baldassarri. - In: JOURNAL OF EARLY MODERN STUDIES. - ISSN 2285-6382. - 6:1(2017), pp. 9-19. [10.5840/jems2017611]
Introduction Gardens as Laboratories. A History of Botanical Sciences
F. Baldassarri
2017
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The importance of gardens as places to cure the mind from sad thoughts was acknowledged by René Descartes (1596-1650) in his epistolary exchange with Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia (1618-1680).1 The claim was not unconventional and it marked a continuity in the representation of gardens as spaces of philosoph-ical inspiration throughout Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and early modernity.
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