Knowing nature : art and science in Philadelphia, 1740-1840 / edited by Amy R.W. Meyers, with the assistance of Lisa L. Ford.

Title & Author:

Knowing nature : art and science in Philadelphia, 1740-1840 / edited by Amy R.W. Meyers, with the assistance of Lisa L. Ford.

Publication:

Description:

xiv, 417 pages : chiefly color illustrations, maps (some color) ; 32 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A protracted view : the relationship between mapmakers and naturalists in recording the land / Margaret Pritchard -- Cultivated lives, cultivated spaces : the scientific garden in Philadelphia, 1740-1840 / Therese O'Malley -- America's "ancient garden": the Bartram Botanic Garden, 1728-1850 / Joel T. Fry -- This other Eden : the American connection in Georgian pleasure grounds, from shrubbery and menagerie to aviary and flower garden / Mark Laird -- From nature and memory : William Bartram's drawings of North American flora and fauna / Amy Meyers -- Cultivating interiors : Philadelphia, China, and the natural world / Janice L. Neri -- Surprising oddness and beauty : textile design and natural history between London and Philadelphia in the eighteenth century / Alicia Weisberg-Roberts -- The rattlesnake : Benjamin Henry Latrobe and the place of art in America / Alexander Nemerov -- A world of uses : Philadelphia's contributions to useful knowledge in François-André Michaux's North American sylva / Lisa L. Ford -- Hand-coloring vs. color printing in early-nineteenth-century natural history color-plate books / James N. Green -- Illustrating nature : institutional support for art and science in Philadelphia, 1770-1830 / Robert McCracken Peck -- The pious pursuit of agriculture : nature, culture, and exchange in Quaker-Seneca missions / Robert S. Cox -- The pictorial legacy of Lewis and Clark / Kenneth Haltman -- A world too much : democracy and natural history in Godman and Audubon / Alexander Nemerov.
Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries (CBHL) Annual Literature Award - Nominee, 2013

ISBN:

9780300111040 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0300111045 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Art and science.
Natural history in art.
Natural history Pennsylvania Philadelphia History 18th century.
Natural history Pennsylvania Philadelphia History 19th century.
Art et sciences.
Sciences naturelles Pennsylvanie Philadelphie Histoire 18e siècle.
Sciences naturelles Pennsylvanie Philadelphie Histoire 19e siècle.
Intellectual life.
Natural history.
Naturwissenschaften.
Kunst.
Pflanzendarstellung.
Tierdarstellung.
Philadelphia (Pa.) Intellectual life 18th century.
Philadelphia (Pa.) Intellectual life 19th century.
Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Philadelphia (Pa.)

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Meyers, Amy R. W.
Ford, Lisa L.

Art and science in Philadelphia, 1740-1840

Holdings:

Location: Library main 280610
Call No.: BIB 217487
Status: Available

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