Gardens, knowledge and the sciences in the Early Modern Period / Hubertus Fischer, Volker R. Remmert, Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fischer, Hubertus, editor.

Remmert, Volker R., 1966- editor.

Wolschke-Bulmahn, Joachim, editor.

Series:

Trends in the history of science

Trends in the history of science, 2297-2951

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horticulture.

Gardens--Design--History.

Gardens.

Landscape gardening.

horticulture.

landscape gardening.

Gardens--Design.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

vi, 374 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Switzerland : 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."-- Back cover.

Contents:

pt. I. Scientization and knowledge about nature.

The art of garden and landscape design and the mathematical sciences in the early modern period / Volker R. Remmert

"Without design, or fate, or force" : why couldn't John Evelyn complete the Elysium Britannicum? / Michael Leslie

The power of the Sun-King at the Potager du Roi / Chandra Mukerji

pt. II. Mathematical sciences and the art of gardening.

The organ of the Villa d'Este in Tivoli and the standards of pneumatic engineering in the Renaissance / Simone M. Kaiser and Matteo Valleriani

Sundials on the Quirinal : astronomy and the early modern garden / Denis Ribouillault

Jacque Lemecier's Scenografia of Montjeu : architectual prints, cartography, and landscape in 1620 / Anthony Gerbino

Utopia, science and garden art in the early modern era / Hubertus Fischer

pt. III. Botany between art and science.

Botanical illustration and the idea of the garden in the sixteenth century between imitation and imagination / Alessandro Tosi

Gardens on canvas and paper : cataloguing botanical abundance in late Medici Tuscany / Irina Schmiedel

Reconstructing order : the spatial arrangements of plants in the Hortus Botanicus of Leiden University in it's first years / Gregory Gramiger

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

pt. IV. Botanical knowledge and horticulture.

Watering the Renaissance garden : horticultural theory and irrigation practice in sixteenth-century Tuscany / Anatole Tchikine

Gardening nature, gardening knowledge : the parallel activities of stabilizing knowledge and gardens in the early modern period / Alette Fleischer ; Gardening knowledge through the circulation of agricultural treatises in Portugal from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries / Ana Duarte Rodrigues

Commerce and erudition : civic self-representation through botany and horticulture in Germany, sixteenth to eighteenth centuries / Iris Lauterbach

pt. V. Landscape design and the natural sciences in Germany and the United States in the early twentieth century : "reactionary modernism"? / Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783319263403

3319263404

9783319263427

3319263420

OCLC:

922910873