Knowing nature : art and science in Philadelphia, 1740-1840 / edited by Amy R.W. Meyers, with the assistance of Lisa L. Ford.
Alternate Title(s):
Art and science in Philadelphia, 1740-1840
Published / Created:
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2011.
Physical Description:
xiv, 417 p. : ill. (mostly col.) ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
BEIN 2014 +290: Dust jacket.
Contents:
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.
Subject Terms:
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.