Gardening and knowledge
Subtitle: landscape design and the sciences in the early modern period : workshop : Hannover, September 17-19, 2012 : [abstracts and CVs]
By: Hubertus Fischer, Volker Remmert, Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn (eds.).
Contributors: Leibniz Universität Hannover; Universität Hannover. Zentrum für Gartenkunst und Landschaftsarchitektur; Bergische Universität Wuppertal. Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung
Publisher: Zentrum für Gartenkunst und Landschaftsarchitektur und Landschaftsarchitektur (CGL)
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Hannover
Language: eng
Number of pages: 91
Subjects: Gardens; Design; History; Congresses; Landscape architecture; Science
Notes: On cover: "Symposium."

Abstracts from a workshop held September 17-19, 2012 at Leibniz Universität Hannover.
Table of contents: title: Gardening and knowledge : landscape design and the sciences in the Early Modern period : an introduction / Hubertus Fischer, Volker Remmert, Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn; title: Water-powered musical automata in prestigious European gardens of the 16th to 18th century / Alexander Ditsche; title: Gardening nature, gardening knowledge : early modern gardens and the rise of natural knowledge / Alette Fleischer; title: The topographical survey and the formal garden : cartography and landscape in 17th-century France / Anthony Gerbino; title: Reconstructing order : architecture, layout, and plants of the botanical garden in Leiden during its first hundred years / Gregory Grämiger; title: Commerce and erudition : bourgeois : self representation by botany and garden culture in Germany, 16th to 18th centuries / Iris Lauterbach; title: The uneasy paradise : why couldn't John Evelyn complete the Elysium Britannicum? / Michael Leslie; title: The potager du roi and the garden of the Sun King / Chandra Mukerij; title: From seeing to science or learning by doing : discovery and sharing botanical knowledge in the 19th century (looking at the Hanoverian Berggarten) / Katharina Peters; title: Garden visits, observation, reading and excerpt : Martin Fogel (1634-1675) of knowledge acquisition techniques / Carola Piepenbring-Thomas; title: Measuring time in the gardens of papal Rome / Denis Ribouillaut; title: Gardenign knowledge : the circulation of agriculture treatises in Portugal between the 16th and the 18th centuries / Ana Duarte Rodrigues; title: Between knowledge and representation; title: growing, painting, collecting, classifying citrus fruit / Irina Schmiedel; title: The creation of knowledge : reconstructing garden history in the Early Modern period / Verena Schneider; title: Paths of knowledge; title: the Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe at Kassel as a centre of scientific and aesthetic networking in early 18th-century Europe / Martina Sitt; title: Ancient knowledge, new aesthetics : Italian Renaissance garden waterworks between theory and practice / Anatole Tchikine; title: Botanical art and the idea of the garden between imagination and science / Alessandro Tosi; title: The organ of the garden of Tivoli / Matteo Valleriani; title: Through the looking glass : optics, geometry, and art in Renaissance and Baroque gardens / Elizabeth Westling; title: The arrangements of plants in Renaissance parterres between science and art / Clemens Alexander Wimmer.