Botanists and Antiquaries in the Garden of the Hesperides

IF 0.1 4区历史学 0 MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE STUDIES

PARERGON Pub Date : 2024-08-23 DOI:10.1353/pgn.2024.a935338

Peter Mason

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The first recorded instance of the extinction of a plant species through human intervention is that of the Libyan silphium, the last stalk of which was believed to have been presented to the emperor Nero in the first century ce. It took the concerted work of antiquaries and botanists to unravel just what had happened. This contribution highlights the role played by Antonio Agustín in his work on ancient coins, among which the image of silphium was preserved on coins from Cyrene in Libya. The scientific debates of sixteenth-century botanists (Andrés Laguna, Pietro Andrea Mattioli, and others) came to rely, in this case, on the patient scrutiny of the experts on ancient coins.

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赫斯珀雷德花园的植物学家和古物学家

摘要：有记载的第一个因人类干预而导致植物物种灭绝的例子是利比亚茜草，据说公元前一世纪，茜草的最后一根茎被献给了尼禄皇帝。古物学家和植物学家齐心协力，才揭开了事情的真相。这篇论文重点介绍了安东尼奥-奥古斯丁在古钱币研究中发挥的作用，其中利比亚昔利尼的钱币上就保留了丝兰的形象。十六世纪植物学家（安德烈斯-拉古纳、皮埃特罗-安德烈亚-马蒂奥利等人）的科学辩论在这种情况下依赖于古钱币专家的耐心研究。

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期刊介绍： Parergon publishes articles and book reviews on all aspects of medieval and early modern studies. It has a particular focus on research which takes new approaches and crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries. Fully refereed and with an international Advisory Board, Parergon is the Southern Hemisphere"s leading journal for early European research. It is published by the Australian and New Zealand Association of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (Inc.) and has close links with the ARC Network for Early European Research.