Gardens, Knowledge and the Sciences in the Early Modern Period [Hardcover]

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.

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 Couldnt 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 dEste 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 betwel£Ù