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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.
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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
