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2025.06.25

The second act in the rhetorical-botanical controversy between Jean-Baptiste Christophe Fusée-Aublet and Pierre Poivre in the 1750s: Dans la « fabrique du savoir » des muscadiers (Myristica Houtt.). This new scientific publication, again published in the Revue d'Histoire des Sciences, offers a quantitative and qualitative inventory of the plant material brought back during Poivre's various expeditions (1753, 1755), based on an analysis of the "botanical clues" detected in various manuscripts. With Thibaud Martinetti, we examine the methodology used to determine this plant species of very high economic value and highlight the many obstacles - both factual and epistemic - that hampered Enlightenment botanical knowledge (Link).

2024.12.03

New book chapter produced with historian Rossella Baldi, in the collective work entitled Pierre-Victor de Besenval (1721-1791), une vie au service du roi de France, published by the Société d'Histoire de la Suisse Romande, edited by Andreas Affolter and Guillaume Poisson. The vernissage took place at the Swiss Embassy in Paris on 4 December 2024.

 

Besenval couverture

2024.12.01

New book chapter in Katharina von Flotow's Flora Incognita, published by Acteditions (ISBN 978-2-940617-99-9). 

 

Flora incognita couverture

 

2024.09.13

Trésors d'herbiers, published by Plume de carotte: a new book produced in collaboration with Alessia Guggisberg. Initially conceived as a temporary exhibition, the project initiated in 2016 has slowly evolved into a “beautiful book with content”, officially launched on 13 September 2024!

 

Herbarium treasures

2023.06.28

New scientific publication published in the Revue d'Histoire des Sciences! This is a continuation of our collaborative work, combining botanical, historical and literary approaches, as part of SNSF-Sinergia project no 186227 (Official Website). Written with Thibaud Martinetti, this article looks back at the famous scientific dispute between the apothecary-botanist Fusée-Aublet and the agronomist Pierre Poivre over the veracity of the nutmeg trees Poivre brought back to the Isle of France (now Mauritius). This first part highlights the importance of rhetorical argument in a conflict that goes beyond the simple framework of an academic controversy (Link). A second part, focusing on the botanical elements of the discourse, is currently in preparation. 

2022.08.10

New scientific publication published in the journal Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences. It is a work mixing a botanical and historical approach and realised in collaboration with Timothée Léchot, within the project FNS-Sinergia no 186227 (Official Website).

2021.06.21

New book chapter realised in collaboration with Alessia Guggisberg, in the collective work entitled Landschaften des Wissens, published by Michael Imhof (edited by Michael Gasser and Meda Diana Hotea). To mark the 50th anniversary of the map collection at the ETH library (50 Jahre Kartensammlung an der ETH-Bilbiothek), we have reconstructed the botanical journey of the botanist Hans Hess and his wife Esther, in 1951-52, on the basis of handwritten documents and herbarium samples.

2021.06.10

New book chapter in the collective work The explosion of life forms - Living beings and morphology published by ISTE. A contribution entitled Elaboration and evolution of plant forms, in collaboration with Florian Jabbour (English version).

2020.11.22

New book chapter in the collective work The explosion of life forms - Living beings and morphology published by ISTE. A contribution entitled Elaboration and evolution of plant forms, in collaboration with Florian Jabbour (French version).

2019.09.10

New scientific publication in Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society and dealing with some evolutionary aspects within the genus Centaurium (Gentianaceae).

2018.11.15

New scientific publication in Molecular Ecology... Congratulations to Alessia Guggisberg for this amazing work!

Last edited: 25/06/2025

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