{"id":"i5vpmu4","internal_id":"9a5e02a4-5fea-42b4-ab4b-b652fda62f1d","links":{"img_thumbnail":"https://digital.sciencehistory.org/downloads/deriv/e7mofhm/thumb_large_2X?disposition=inline","html_self":"https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/i5vpmu4"},"title":"Phytognomonica: octo libris contenta","additional_title":[],"format":["text"],"genre":["Rare books","Woodcuts"],"medium":[],"extent":["320 pages","30 cm H"],"language":["Latin"],"provenance":"","subject":["Botany","Medicinal plants","Physiognomy"],"department":"Library","series_arrangement":[],"rights":"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/","rights_holder":"","digitization_funder":"","file_creator":"","description":"Giambattista della Porta's (1535–1615), Phytognomonica (1588), is an eight-book treatise examining the outward characteristics of plants, animals, minerals, and other natural objects in relation to their hidden properties. It draws on the doctrine of signatures, the idea that an organism’s visible features, such as its shape, colour, or growth habits, may indicate its medicinal properties. ","description_html":"<p>Giambattista della Porta's (1535–1615), Phytognomonica (1588), is an eight-book treatise examining the outward characteristics of plants, animals, minerals, and other natural objects in relation to their hidden properties. It draws on the doctrine of signatures, the idea that an organism’s visible features, such as its shape, colour, or growth habits, may indicate its medicinal properties. </p>","published_at":"2026-10-23T17:34:45Z","updated_at":"2026-10-23T17:34:45Z","creator":[{"category":"author","value":"Porta, Giambattista della, approximately 1535-1615"}],"date_of_work":[{"start":"1588","start_qualifier":"","finish":"","finish_qualifier":"","note":"","formatted":"1588"}],"place":[{"category":"place_of_creation","value":"Italy--Naples"}],"inscription":[],"related_link":[],"additional_credit":[],"physical_container":{"box":"","folder":"","volume":"","part":"","page":"","shelfmark":"QK41 .P678 1588","reel":"","formatted":"Shelfmark QK41 .P678 1588"}}