Gardens, Knowledge and the Sciences in the Early Modern Period / edited by Hubertus Fischer, Volker R. Remmert, Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fischer, Hubertus, Editor.

Remmert, Volker R., Editor.

Wolschke-Bulmahn, Joachim, Editor.

Series:

Trends in the History of Science, 2297-296X

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mathematics.

History.

History of Mathematical Sciences.

Local Subjects:

History of Mathematical Sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (369 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2016.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2016.

Summary:

This volume focuses on the outstanding contributions made by botany and the mathematical sciences to the genesis and development of early modern garden art and garden culture. The many facets of the mathematical sciences and botany point to the increasingly “scientific” approach that was being adopted in and applied to garden art and garden culture in the early modern period. This development was deeply embedded in the philosophical, religious, political, cultural and social contexts, running parallel to the beginning of processes of scientization so characteristic for modern European history. This volume strikingly shows how these various developments are intertwined in gardens for various purposes.

Contents:

1.Hubertus Fischer, Volker R. Remmert, Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn: Introduction

I Scientization and Knowledge about Nature

2.Volker R. Remmert: The Art of Garden and Landscape Design and the Mathematical Sciences in the Early Modern Period

3.Michael Leslie: “Without design, or Fate, or Force”: Why Couldn’t John Evelyn Complete the “Elysium Britannicum”?

4.Chandra Mukerji: The Power of the Sun-King at the Potager du Roi

II Mathematical Sciences and the Art of Gardening

5.Simone M. Kaiser and Matteo Valleriani: The Organ of the Villa d’Este in Tivoli and the Standards of Pneumatic Engineering in the Renaissance

6.Denis Ribouillault: Sundials on the Quirinal: Astronomy and the Early Modern Garden

7.Anthony Gerbino: Jacques Lemercier's 'Scenografia du Chasteau de Montjeu': Printmaking, Cartography, and Landscape in 1620

8.Hubertus Fischer: Utopia, Science and Garden Art in the Early Modern Era

III Botany between Art and Science

9.Alessandro Tosi: Botanical illustration and the idea of the garden in the sixteenth century between imitation and imagination

10.Irina Schmiedel: Gardens on Canvas and Paper: Cataloguing Botanical Abundance in Late Medici Tuscany

11.Gregory Grämiger: Reconstructing Order: The Spatial Arrangements of Plants in the Hortus Botanicus of Leiden University in its First Years

12.Carola Piepenbring-Thomas: Garden visits, observations, reading and excerpts. Martin Fogel (1634-1675) and his techniques of acquiring knowledge

IV Botanical Knowledge and Horticulture

13.Anatole Tchikine: Watering the Renaissance Garden: Horticultural Theory and Irrigation Practice in Sixteenth-Century Tuscany

14.Alette Fleischer: Gardening nature, gardening knowledge: The parallel activities of stabilizing knowledge and gardens in the early modern period

15.Ana Duarte Rodriguez: Gardening knowledge through the circulation of agricultural treatises in Portugal from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries

16.Iris Lauterbach: Commerce and Erudition: Civic Self Representation by Botany and Horticulture in Germany, 16th to 18th centuries

V Perspective

17.Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn: Landscape Design and the Natural Sciences in Germany and the United States in the Early Twentieth Century: “Reactionary Modernism”?

Index of names.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

3-319-26342-0