Gardens Knowledge And The Sciences In The Early Modern Period

Author : Hubertus Fischer,Volker R. Remmert,Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-03
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783319263427

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Gardens, Knowledge and the Sciences in the Early Modern Period by Hubertus Fischer,Volker R. Remmert,Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn Pdf

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.

Author : Hubertus Fischer,Volker R. Remmert,Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn,Leibniz Universität Hannover,Universität Hannover. Zentrum für Gartenkunst und Landschaftsarchitektur,Bergische Universität Wuppertal. Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Gardens
ISBN : OCLC:828178843

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Gardening and Knowledge by Hubertus Fischer,Volker R. Remmert,Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn,Leibniz Universität Hannover,Universität Hannover. Zentrum für Gartenkunst und Landschaftsarchitektur,Bergische Universität Wuppertal. Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung Pdf

Author : Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn,Ronald Clark
Publisher : Akademische Verlagsgemeinschaft München AVM
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783954771257

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From Garden Art to Landscape Architecture by Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn,Ronald Clark Pdf

Originally, the area of responsibility for landscape architecture was based on the premise that the planning and creating of open spaces such as parks and gardens was the business of garden artists. Today, the training of landscape architects and future challenges of the profession include the protection of natural resources and the environment, urban planning or tourism - to name but a few. The international symposium “From Garden Art to Landscape Architecture - Traditions, Re-Evaluations, and Future Perspectives” addressed questions which, based on the idea of garden art, should help to reconstruct its historical development but also discussed the notion and the relevance of “art” in everyday work. The contributions critically reflect on the professional self-image of landscape architects at the beginning of the 21st century. The symposium in September 2018 was co-organized by the City and State Capital of Hannover’s Herrenhausen Gardens Division, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gartenkunst und Landschaftsarchitekturt (DGGL), the Volkswagen Foundation and the Centre of Garden Art and Landscape Architectur.

Author : James Calum O’Neill
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000911909

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The Allegory of Love in the Early Renaissance by James Calum O’Neill Pdf

Described as ‘the most beautiful book ever printed’ previous research has focused on the printing history of the Hypnerotomachia and its copious literary sources. This monograph critically engages with the narrative of the Hypnerotomachia and with Poliphilo as a character within this narrative, placing it within its European literary context. Using narratological analysis, it examines the journey of Poliphilo and the series of symbolic, allegorical, and metaphorical experiences narrated by him that are indicative of his metamorphosing interiority. It analyses the relationship between Poliphilo and his external surroundings in sequences of the narrative pertaining to thresholds; the symbolic architectural, topographical, and garden forms and spaces; and Poliphilo’s transforming interior passions including his love of antiquarianism, language, and Polia, the latter of which leads to his elegiac description of lovesickness, besides examinations of numerosophical symbolism in number, form, and proportion of the architectural descriptions and how they relate to the narrative.

Author : Mordechai Feingold,Victor Navarro-Brotons
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 1402039743

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Universities and Science in the Early Modern Period by Mordechai Feingold,Victor Navarro-Brotons Pdf

This book includes most of the contributions presented at a conference on “Univ- sities and Science in the Early Modern Period” held in 1999 in Valencia, Spain. The conference was part of the “Five Centuries of the Life of the University of Valencia” (Cinc Segles) celebrations, and from the outset we had the generous support of the “Patronato” (Foundation) overseeing the events. In recent decades, as a result of a renewed attention to the institutional, political, social, and cultural context of scienti?c activity, we have witnessed a reappraisal of the role of the universities in the construction and development of early modern science. In essence, the following conclusions have been reached: (1) the attitudes regarding scienti?c progress or novelty differed from country to country and follow differenttrajectoriesinthecourseoftheearlymodernperiod;(2)institutionsofhigher learning were the main centers of education for most scientists; (3) although the universities were sometimes slow to assimilate new scienti?c knowledge, when they didsoithelpednotonlytoremovethesuspicionthatthenewsciencewasintellectually subversivebutalsotomakesciencearespectableandevenprestigiousactivity;(4)the universities gave the scienti?c movement considerable material support in the form of research facilities such as anatomical theaters, botanical gardens, and expensive instruments; (5) the universities provided professional employment and a means of support to many scientists; and (6) although the relations among the universities and the academies or scienti?c societies were sometimes antagonistic, the two types of institutionsoftenworkedtogetherinharmony,performingcomplementaryratherthan competing functions; moreover, individuals moved from one institution to another, as did knowledge, methods, and scienti?c practices.

Author : Clare Hickman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300236101

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The Doctor's Garden by Clare Hickman Pdf

A richly illustrated exploration of how late Georgian gardens associated with medical practitioners advanced science, education, and agricultural experimentation As Britain grew into an ever-expanding empire during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, new and exotic botanical specimens began to arrive within the nation's public and private spaces. Gardens became sites not just of leisure, sport, and aesthetic enjoyment, but also of scientific inquiry and knowledge dissemination. Medical practitioners used their botanical training to capitalize on the growing fashion for botanical collecting and agricultural experimentation in institutional, semipublic, and private gardens across Britain. This book highlights the role of these medical practitioners in the changing use of gardens in the late Georgian period, marked by a fluidity among the ideas of farm, laboratory, museum, and garden. Placing these activities within a wider framework of fashionable, scientific, and economic interests of the time, historian Clare Hickman argues that gardens shifted from predominately static places of enjoyment to key gathering places for improvement, knowledge sharing, and scientific exploration.

Author : Karl A.E. Enenkel,Walter Melion
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 613 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004440401

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Landscape and the Visual Hermeneutics of Place, 1500–1700 by Karl A.E. Enenkel,Walter Melion Pdf

This volume examines the image-based methods of interpretation that pictorial and literary landscapists employed between 1500 and 1700.

Author : Susanna Berger,Daniel Garber
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030846213

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Teaching Philosophy in Early Modern Europe by Susanna Berger,Daniel Garber Pdf

This book examines how philosophy was taught in the early modern period in Europe. It breaks new ground in a number of ways. Firstly, it seeks to bring text-based scholars in the history of philosophy together with social and cultural historians to examine the interaction between tradition and innovation in the early modern classroom, the site where traditional views of the world were transmitted to the generation that was to give birth to modern philosophy and science. Secondly, it draws together scholars who are centered on ideas and words with other scholars who focus on the role of images in the classroom and the intellectual world in this central period of history. The volume advances our understanding of how philosophy was understood and transmitted in this rich and crucial era. The principal audience for Teaching Philosophy are historians of science, philosophy, art, visual culture, and print culture. The chapters are written in a tone accessible to upper-level undergraduates and graduate students. It also reaches non-specialist readers interested in subjects including the “scientific revolution,” the organization of information, and Renaissance and Baroque visual art.

Author : Mackenzie Cooley,Anna Toledano,Duygu Yıldırım
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000873023

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Natural Things in Early Modern Worlds by Mackenzie Cooley,Anna Toledano,Duygu Yıldırım Pdf

The essays and original visualizations collected in Natural Things in Early Modern Worlds explore the relationships among natural things - ranging from pollen in a gust of wind to a carnivorous pitcher plant to a shell-like skinned armadillo - and the humans enthralled with them. Episodes from 1500 to the early 1900s reveal connected histories across early modern worlds as natural things traveled across the Indian Ocean, the Ottoman Empire, Pacific islands, Southeast Asia, the Spanish Empire, and Western Europe. In distant worlds that were constantly changing with expanding networks of trade, colonial aspirations, and the rise of empiricism, natural things obtained new meanings and became alienated from their origins. Tracing the processes of their displacement, each chapter starts with a piece of original artwork that relies on digital collage to pull image sources out of place and to represent meanings that natural things lost and remade. Accessible and elegant, Natural Things is the first study of its kind to combine original visualizations with the history of science. Museum-goers, scholars, scientists, and students will find new histories of nature and collecting within. Its playful visuality will capture the imagination of non-academic and academic readers alike while reminding us of the alienating capacity of the modern life sciences.

Author : Ine Wouters,Stephanie van de Voorde,Inge Bertels,Bernard Espion,Krista de Jonge,Denis Zastavni
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 1394 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780429013621

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Building Knowledge, Constructing Histories by Ine Wouters,Stephanie van de Voorde,Inge Bertels,Bernard Espion,Krista de Jonge,Denis Zastavni Pdf

Building Knowledge, Constructing Histories brings together the papers presented at the Sixth International Congress on Construction History (6ICCH, Brussels, Belgium, 9-13 July 2018). The contributions present the latest research in the field of construction history, covering themes such as: - Building actors - Building materials - The process of building - Structural theory and analysis - Building services and techniques - Socio-cultural aspects - Knowledge transfer - The discipline of Construction History The papers cover various types of buildings and structures, from ancient times to the 21st century, from all over the world. In addition, thematic papers address specific themes and highlight new directions in construction history research, fostering transnational and interdisciplinary collaboration. Building Knowledge, Constructing Histories is a must-have for academics, scientists, building conservators, architects, historians, engineers, designers, contractors and other professionals involved or interested in the field of construction history.

Author : Fabrizio Baldassarri,Craig Martin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350325166

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Andrea Cesalpino and Renaissance Aristotelianism by Fabrizio Baldassarri,Craig Martin Pdf

Shedding new light on the understudied Italian Renaissance scholar, Andrea Cesalpino, and the diverse fields he wrote on, this volume covers the multiple traditions that characterize his complex natural philosophy and medical theories, taking in epistemology, demonology, mineralogy, and botany. By moving beyond the established influence of Aristotle's texts on his work, Andrea Cesalpino and Renaissance Aristotelianism reflects the rich influences of Platonism, alchemy, Galenism, and Hippocratic ideas. Cesalpino's relation to the new sciences of the 16th century are traced through his direct influences, on cosmology, botany, and medicine. In combining Cesalpino's reception of these traditions alongside his connections to early modern science, this book provides a vital case study of Renaissance Aristotelianism.

Author : Ana Duarte Rodrigues,Carmen Toribio Marín
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030340612

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The History of Water Management in the Iberian Peninsula by Ana Duarte Rodrigues,Carmen Toribio Marín Pdf

This volume approaches the history of water in the Iberian Peninsula in a novel way, by linking it to the ongoing international debate on water crisis and solutions to overcome the lack of water in the Mediterranean. What water devices were found? What were the models for these devices? How were they distributed in the villas and monastic enclosures? What impact did hydraulic theoretical knowledge have on these water systems, and how could these systems impact on hydraulic technology? Guided by these questions, this book covers the history of water in the most significant cities, the role of water in landscape transformation, the irrigation systems and water devices in gardens and villas, and, lastly, the theoretical and educational background on water management and hydraulics in the Iberian Peninsula between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries. Historiography on water management in the territory that is today Spain has highlighted the region’s role as a mediator between the Islamic masters of water and the Christian world. The history of water in Portugal is less known, and it has been taken for granted that is similar to its neighbour. This book compares two countries that have the same historical roots and, therefore, many similar stories, but at the same time, offers insights into particular aspects of each country. It is recommended for scholars and researchers interested in any field of history of the early modern period and of the nineteenth century, as well as general readers interested in studies on the Iberian Peninsula, since it was the role model for many settlements in South America, Asia and Africa.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004677654

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Manipulating the Sun by Anonim Pdf

This volume puts two biblical miracles - the Sun reversing its course in II Kings 20:8-11/Isaiah 38:8 (Horologium Ahaz) and the Sun standing still in Joshua 10:12 -, in the early modern period centre stage. We pay special attention to the development of related imagery, their role as anti-Copernican arguments (in text and image), their reception, their treatment in the mathematical sciences, and their various cultural layers, with a focus on the history of art and the history of science in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The material discussed spreads from rather prosaic mathematical reflections to highly appealing visual representations of the two miracles.

Author : Vera Keller
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421445922

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The Interlopers by Vera Keller Pdf

A reframing of how scientific knowledge was produced in the early modern world. Many accounts of the scientific revolution portray it as a time when scientists disciplined knowledge by first disciplining their own behavior. According to these views, scientists such as Francis Bacon produced certain knowledge by pacifying their emotions and concentrating on method. In The Interlopers, Vera Keller rejects this emphasis on discipline and instead argues that what distinguished early modernity was a navigation away from restraint and toward the violent blending of knowledge from across society and around the globe. Keller follows early seventeenth-century English "projectors" as they traversed the world, pursuing outrageous entrepreneurial schemes along the way. These interlopers were developing a different culture of knowledge, one that aimed to take advantage of the disorder created by the rise of science and technological advances. They sought to deploy the first submarine in the Indian Ocean, raise silkworms in Virginia, and establish the English slave trade. These projectors developed a culture of extreme risk-taking, uniting global capitalism with martial values of violent conquest. They saw the world as a riskscape of empty spaces, disposable people, and unlimited resources. By analyzing the disasters—as well as a few successes—of the interlopers she studies, Keller offers a new interpretation of the nature of early modern knowledge itself. While many influential accounts of the period characterize European modernity as a disciplining or civilizing process, The Interlopers argues that early modernity instead entailed a great undisciplining that entangled capitalism, colonialism, and science.

Author : Martin Korenjak
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192635594

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Latin Scientific Literature, 1450-1850 by Martin Korenjak Pdf

During the early modern period, the emergence of what ultimately became modern science took place mainly in Latin, the international language of educated discourse of the era. Hundreds of thousands of scientific texts were published in Latin from the invention of print around 1450 to the demise of Latin as a language of science around 1850. Despite its importance, our knowledge of this literature is extremely limited. This book aims to provide an overview of this area, the first ever to be written. It does so, not from the perspective of a natural scientist or a historian of science, but of a literary scholar. Instead of the scientific content or methodology of the respective works, it focusses on the genres of scientific literature and their communicative functions. Latin Scientific Literature, 1450-1850 falls into two main parts. The first part ('Contexts') introduces four aspects of early modern intellectual culture which are crucial for an understanding of the scientific literature of the time: the development of science, the role of Latin, the concept of literature, and the rise of print. Part two ('Texts'), offers an overview of Neo-Latin scientific literature. Subsumed under five communicative functions - disclosing sources, presenting facts, arguing for certain positions, summarizing knowledge, and publicizing science - twenty pertinent genres are discussed.