Knowing nature
Subtitle: art and science in Philadelphia, 1740-1840
By: edited by Amy R.W. Meyers, with the assistance of Lisa L. Ford.
Contributors: Meyers, Amy R. W.; Ford, Lisa L.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780300111040
Subjects: Art and science; Natural history -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 18th century; Natural history -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century; Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Intellectual life -- 18th century; Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
Other titles: Art and science in Philadelphia, 1740-1840
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A protracted view : the relationship between mapmakers and naturalists in recording the land / Margaret Pritchard; title: Cultivated lives, cultivated spaces : the scientific garden in Philadelphia, 1740-1840 / Therese O'Malley; title: America's "ancient garden": the Bartram Botanic Garden, 1728-1850 / Joel T. Fry; title: This other Eden : the American connection in Georgian pleasure grounds, from shrubbery and menagerie to aviary and flower garden / Mark Laird; title: From nature and memory : William Bartram's drawings of North American flora and fauna / Amy Meyers; title: Cultivating interiors : Philadelphia, China, and the natural world / Janice L. Neri; title: Surprising oddness and beauty : textile design and natural history between London and Philadelphia in the eighteenth century / Alicia Weisberg-Roberts; title: The rattlesnake : Benjamin Henry Latrobe and the place of art in America / Alexander Nemerov; title: A world of uses : Philadelphia's contributions to useful knowledge in François-André Michaux's North American sylva / Lisa L. Ford; title: Hand-coloring vs. color printing in early-nineteenth-century natural history color-plate books / James N. Green; title: Illustrating nature : institutional support for art and science in Philadelphia, 1770-1830 / Robert McCracken Peck; title: The pious pursuit of agriculture : nature, culture, and exchange in Quaker-Seneca missions / Robert S. Cox; title: The pictorial legacy of Lewis and Clark / Kenneth Haltman; title: A world too much : democracy and natural history in Godman and Audubon / Alexander Nemerov.