Gardens, Knowledge and the Sciences in the Early Modern Period

Part of the Trends in the History of Science Book Series

Editors: Fischer, Hubertus; Remmert, Volker R.; Wolschke-Bulmahn, Joachim

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-26342-7

ISBN: 978-3-319-26340-3

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Jun 4, 2016

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Reconstructing Order: The Spatial Arrangements of Plants in the Hortus Botanicus of Leiden University in Its First Years

Grämiger, Gregory

Pages: 235 –251

[The University of Leiden featured one of the first botanical gardens north of the Alps, which was fully equipped in 1594. The first three persons responsible for the garden—Carolus Clusius, Dirk Outgaertsz. Cluyt and Pieter Pauw—had to distribute the plants and herbs into the different garden...
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Garden Visits, Observations, Reading and Excerpts: Martin Fogel (1634–1675) and His Techniques of Acquiring Knowledge

Piepenbring-Thomas, Carola

Pages: 253 –265

[The physician Martin Fogel developed special methods of accumulating knowledge in the seventeenth century. He collected more than 3600 books and he made notes on more than 30,000 little slips of paper, highlighting excerpts from his books or from received letters. He recorded information from...
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Watering the Renaissance Garden: Horticultural Theory and Irrigation Practice in Sixteenth-Century Tuscany

Tchikine, Anatole

Pages: 269 –288

[Although essential for the life of plants, garden irrigation remains a little known aspect of Italian Renaissance horticulture. By drawing mainly on sixteenth-century Tuscan sources, this chapter attempts to reconstruct both the methods and theoretical underpinnings of this practice. It examines...
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Gardening Nature, Gardening Knowledge: The Parallel Activities of Stabilizing Knowledge and Gardens in the Early Modern Period

Fleischer, Alette

Pages: 289 –304

[This chapter discusses how nature and knowledge were domesticated by the parallel activities of constructing early modern gardens and publishing botanical books. In both activities, students of nature collected botanical knowledge and plants to make them solid, mobile, reproducible, and...
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Gardening Knowledge Through the Circulation of Agricultural Treatises in Portugal From the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries

Rodrigues, Ana Duarte

Pages: 305 –317

[In this paper, I demonstrate that from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, gardening horticultural knowledge in Portugal was much more accessible through Spanish and French agricultural treatises than through any other kind of garden literature. So, focusing on agricultural treatises, the aim...
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Commerce and Erudition: Civic Self-Representation Through Botany and Horticulture in Germany, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries

Lauterbach, Iris

Pages: 319 –341

[Through several case studies, this paper examines the important role gardens played in civic self-representation and the creation of a civic “corporate identity” in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. Several German cities—and not residential cities—were crosspoints in the history of botany...
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Landscape Design and the Natural Sciences in Germany and the United States in the Early Twentieth Century: “Reactionary Modernism”?

Wolschke-Bulmahn, Joachim

Pages: 345 –365

[The increasingly scientific approach to garden culture and to professional ideas on designing gardens has repeatedly received special impulses over the centuries since the Early Modern Era. If previously, it was above all disciplines such as mathematics that found their expression in gardens and...

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