Úhola smyslového vnímání v poznávání a popisu přírody v renesanci

• Main Author: Čermáková, Lucie
• Other Authors: Kleisner, Karel
• Format: Doctoral Thesis
• Language: Czech
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-328170

This work focuses on the use of senses and sense perceptible qualities in cognition and description of nature in the Renaissance. The development of natural history as a discipline started in that time. Brian Ogilvie even defined this period as a period of "The Science of Describing". The core of Renaissance natural history is the study of plants - Res herbaria. There were various motivations for studying plants during the sixteenth century - from the philological interest in plant descriptions of ancient texts, across their use as medical remedies, up to the study and observation of living plants in nature. This transformation of goals and interests in natural history brings different use of senses and different appreciation of sensory perceptible qualities of plants. First, it is necessary to determine the therapeutic effects of plants. Medicinal properties are based on the primary composition and are closely linked to sensory perceptible qualities. Another motivation for the study and description is the determination of the plant itself. First, it is mainly the identification of plants of the texts of ancient authors - Dioscorides, Galen, Pliny and Theophrastus. Descriptions of these texts then naturalists compared with their knowledge and experience with living plants. Observing and describing...