Allumfassende Ordnung
Subtitle: Gartenkunst und Wissenschaft in Gotha unter Ernst II. von Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg (1772-1804)
By: Julia Burbulla
Series: Natur, Wissenschaft und die Künste = -- Nature, science et les arts = -- Nature, science and the arts -- Bd. 1; Natur, Wissenschaft und die Künste -- Bd. 1.
Publisher: P. Lang
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Bern; New York
Language: ger
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9783034300384
Subjects: Civilization; Landschaftsgarten; Design; Landscape architecture; History; Gartenkunst; Gardens
Other titles: Gartenkunst und Wissenschaft in Gotha unter Ernst II. von Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg (1772-1804); Herzoglichen Gärten in Gotha unter Ernst II. von Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg (1772-1804)
Description: The close connection between gardening and natural science is particularly clear in the models for gardening developed in Europe from 1770 on.  The theoretical basis of this new style of gardening developed from the interplay between aesthetics and physics.  As previous theory of gardening emphasized an artistic undertaking with political symbolism, theoretical development indicated  a scientific basis and took the presentation of limitless space as the possibility for varying concepts of perception as the center of consideration.  This study illuminates this development by the example of the landscape gardens in Gotha.  It not only relates the history of the gardens within the broad context of  the history of the theory of space, but considers itself a contribution to the history of the relation between art and natural science in the period of the Enlightenment.
Notes: Slight revision of the author's thesis (doctoral--Universität Bern, 2007), with title: Die herzoglichen Gärten in Gotha unter Ernst II. von Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg (1772-1804).

Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-280) and index.