In Pliny the Elder’s work is present the description of a plant called Silphium. Very famous and sought after at the time it disappeared long ago. Its memory survives in the recipies of Celio Apicio (4th century CE). Recent literature attributes its disappearance to climate change. Today’s problems are much more serious but Jürgen Renn is optimistic that a new Economy of Knowledge and...
The approach on historical epistemology pursued by Jürgen Renn and Department 1 has led to delve more and more into the question of the structural role of scientific institutions in the production, circulation, and certification of knowledge. The focus on scientific institutions, on the other hand, necessarily requires to comprehend the political, economic and social conditions that led to...
