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Using instruments in the study of animate beings:Della Porta’s and Bacon’s experiments with plants
Get PDFIn this paper, I explain Francis Bacon's use of plants as philosophical instruments in the context of his Historia vitae et mortis. My main claim is that Bacon experimented with plants in order to obtain knowledge about the hidden processes of nature, knowledge that could be transferred to the human case and used for the prolongation of life. Bacon's experiments were based on Giambattista della Porta's reports from the Magia naturalis, but I show how a different metaphysics and research method made Bacon systematically rework, reconceptualise, and put to divergent uses the results of the same experimental reports
Approaches to conserving natural enemy populations in greenhouse crops: current methods and future prospects
Get PDFPlant and supplementary food sources effect the development of Dicyphus errans (Hemiptera: Miridae)
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Estrogen but not testosterone preserves myofilament function from doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity by reducing oxidative modifications
No full textImpact of prey supply levels on growth performance and optimization of the mass rearing of an omnivorous mirid predator
No full textInoculative release strategies of Macrolophus pygmaeus Rambur (Hemiptera: Miridae) in tomato crops: population dynamics and dispersal
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Using instruments in the study of animate beings: Della Porta's and Bacon's experiments with plants
No full textOlfactory response of the zoophytophagous mirid Nesidiocoris tenuis to tomato and alternative host plants
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