Gardens, Knowledge and the Sciences in the Early Modern Period (eBook)

Hubertus Fischer, Volker R. Remmert, Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn (Herausgeber)

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2016 | 1st ed. 2016
VI, 374 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-26342-7 (ISBN)

Infos

This volume of proceedings primarily 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 mathematical sciences and botany point to the increasingly 'scientific' approach that was being adopted in garden art and garden culture in the early modern period. This development unfolds in interaction with philosophical, religious, political and social processes and beliefs. This volume strikingly shows that such processes are able to make use of the knowledge of nature manifested in gardens for various purposes. 

The conference that inspired this volume was jointly organized by the Leibniz Universität Hannover's Centre of Garden Art and Landscape Architecture (CGL) and the Bergische Universität Wuppertal's Interdisciplinary Centre for Science and Technology Studies (IZWT).

Inhalt

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.6.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Trends in the History of Science
• Reihe/Serie: Trends in the History of Science
• Zusatzinfo: VI, 374 p. 107 illus., 35 illus. in color.
• Verlagsort: Cham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: history of botany • history of early modern science and technology • history of landscape design • history of the mathematical sciences • scientization and mathematization • transmission of knowledge
• ISBN-10: 3-319-26342-0 / 3319263420
• ISBN-13: 978-3-319-26342-7 / 9783319263427