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Gardens, Knowledge and the Sciences in the Early Modern Period [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Hubertus Fischer, Volker R. Remmert, Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn
| Gardens, Knowledge and the Sciences in the Early Modern Period [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Hubertus Fischer, Volker R. Remmert, Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2016.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Birkhäuser, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (369 p.) |
| Disciplina | 510.71 |
| Collana | Trends in the History of Science |
| Soggetto topico |
Mathematics
History History of Mathematical Sciences |
| ISBN | 3-319-26342-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910254091503321 |
| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Birkhäuser, , 2016 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Historiography of Mathematics in the 19th and 20th Centuries [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Volker R. Remmert, Martina R. Schneider, Henrik Kragh Sørensen
| Historiography of Mathematics in the 19th and 20th Centuries [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Volker R. Remmert, Martina R. Schneider, Henrik Kragh Sørensen |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2016.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Birkhäuser, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (X, 276 p. 8 illus., 1 illus. in color.) |
| Disciplina | 907.2 |
| Collana | Trends in the History of Science |
| Soggetto topico |
Mathematics
History History of Mathematical Sciences History of Science |
| ISBN | 3-319-39649-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introductory remarks -- The History of Mathematics in the Progress of Mankind. Modifying the Narrative around 1800 -- Practicing History of Mathematics in Islamicate Societies in the 19th-century Germany and France -- Mesopotamian Mathematics, seen "from the inside" (by Assyriologists) and "from the outside" (by Historians of Mathematics) -- Appropriating Role Models for the Mathematical Profession: Biographies in the American Mathematical Monthly around 1900 -- Greek Mathematics in English: The Work of Sir Thomas L. Heath (1861{1940) -- Otto Neugebauer's Vision for Rewriting the History of Ancient Mathematics -- The `Mathematization of Nature': The Making of a Concept, and How It Has Fared In Later Years -- Histories of Modern Mathematics in English in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s -- Polycephalic Euclid? Collective Practices in Bourbaki's History of Mathematics -- Pulling Harriot out of Newton's shadow: How the Norwegian Outsider Johannes Lohne Came to Contribute to Mainstream History of Mathematics -- Contextualizing Unguru's 1975 Attack on the Historiography of Ancient Greek Mathematics -- Table of graphics -- Name index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910155276503321 |
| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Birkhäuser, , 2016 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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