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Gardens, Knowledge and the Sciences in the Early Modern PeriodThe Art of Garden and Landscape Design and the Mathematical Sciences in the Early Modern Period

Gardens, Knowledge and the Sciences in the Early Modern Period: The Art of Garden and Landscape... [The mathematical sciences of the early modern period comprised many fields of knowledge, and those such as astronomy, geography, optics, music, practical geometry, acoustics, architecture and arithmetic were often deliberately oriented towards practical applications. Between the mid-sixteenth and mid-eighteenth centuries, practitioners of the mathematical sciences and garden and landscape designers shared the conviction that nature could be controlled and manipulated, and the methods used and the knowledge acquired in the mathematical sciences opened up new ways to do this. These potentialities affected the realm of landscape design and gardening in various formative ways that reached directly into the political sphere by offering new possibilities for political representation, of which there are numerous noteworthy examples, including the gardens of Versailles, perhaps the most magnificent representational gardens in seventeenth-century Europe.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Gardens, Knowledge and the Sciences in the Early Modern PeriodThe Art of Garden and Landscape Design and the Mathematical 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
Remmert, Volker R.
Gardens, Knowledge and the Sciences in the Early Modern Period — Jun 4, 2016
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Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
ISBN
978-3-319-26340-3
Pages
9 –28
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-26342-7_2
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Abstract

[The mathematical sciences of the early modern period comprised many fields of knowledge, and those such as astronomy, geography, optics, music, practical geometry, acoustics, architecture and arithmetic were often deliberately oriented towards practical applications. Between the mid-sixteenth and mid-eighteenth centuries, practitioners of the mathematical sciences and garden and landscape designers shared the conviction that nature could be controlled and manipulated, and the methods used and the knowledge acquired in the mathematical sciences opened up new ways to do this. These potentialities affected the realm of landscape design and gardening in various formative ways that reached directly into the political sphere by offering new possibilities for political representation, of which there are numerous noteworthy examples, including the gardens of Versailles, perhaps the most magnificent representational gardens in seventeenth-century Europe.]

Published: Jun 4, 2016

Keywords: Seventeenth Century; Mathematical Science; Scientific Revolution; Landscape Design; Early Modern Period

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