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Gardens, Knowledge and the Sciences in the Early Modern Period

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

Book information

Publisher
Birkhäuser Basel
Year
2016
ISBN
978-3-319-26340-3, 978-3-319-26342-7
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-26342-7
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
19 MB (20155143 bytes)
Series
Trends in the History of Science
Edition
1
Pages
VI, 374\369
Time added
2016-07-20 04:00:00
History of Mathematical Sciences

Description

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.

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