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1.Hubertus Fischer, Volker R. Remmert, Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn: Introduction
I Scientization and Knowledge about Nature
2.Volker R. Remmert: The Art of Garden and Landscape Design and the Mathematical Sciences in the Early Modern Period
3.Michael Leslie: "Without design, or Fate, or Force": Why Couldn't John Evelyn Complete the "Elysium Britannicum"?
4.Chandra Mukerji: The Power of the Sun-King at the Potager du Roi
II Mathematical Sciences and the Art of Gardening
5.Simone M. Kaiser and Matteo Valleriani: The Organ of the Villa d'Este in Tivoli and the Standards of Pneumatic Engineering in the Renaissance
6.Denis Ribouillault: Sundials on the Quirinal: Astronomy and the Early Modern Garden
7.Anthony Gerbino: Jacques Lemercier's 'Scenografia du Chasteau de Montjeu': Printmaking, Cartography, and Landscape in 1620
8.Hubertus Fischer: Utopia, Science and Garden Art in the Early Modern Era
III Botany between Art and Science
9.Alessandro Tosi: Botanical illustration and the idea of the garden in the sixteenth century between imitation and imagination
10.Irina Schmiedel: Gardens on Canvas and Paper: Cataloguing Botanical Abundance in Late Medici Tuscany
11.Gregory Grämiger: Reconstructing Order: The Spatial Arrangements of Plants in the Hortus Botanicus of Leiden University in its First Years
12.Carola Piepenbring-Thomas: Garden visits, observations, reading and excerpts. Martin Fogel (1634-1675) and his techniques of acquiring knowledge
IV Botanical Knowledge and Horticulture
13.Anatole Tchikine: Watering the Renaissance Garden: Horticultural Theory and Irrigation Practice in Sixteenth-Century Tuscany
14.Alette Fleischer: Gardening nature, gardening knowledge: The parallel activities of stabilizing knowledge and gardens in the early modern period
15.Ana Duarte Rodriguez: Gardening knowledge through the circulation of agricultural treatises in Portugal from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries
16.Iris Lauterbach: Commerce and Erudition: Civic Self Representation by Botany and Horticulture in Germany, 16th to 18th centuries
V Perspective
17.Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn: Landscape Design and the Natural Sciences in Germany and the United States in the Early Twentieth Century: "Reactionary Modernism"?
Index of names.
I Scientization and Knowledge about Nature
2.Volker R. Remmert: The Art of Garden and Landscape Design and the Mathematical Sciences in the Early Modern Period
3.Michael Leslie: "Without design, or Fate, or Force": Why Couldn't John Evelyn Complete the "Elysium Britannicum"?
4.Chandra Mukerji: The Power of the Sun-King at the Potager du Roi
II Mathematical Sciences and the Art of Gardening
5.Simone M. Kaiser and Matteo Valleriani: The Organ of the Villa d'Este in Tivoli and the Standards of Pneumatic Engineering in the Renaissance
6.Denis Ribouillault: Sundials on the Quirinal: Astronomy and the Early Modern Garden
7.Anthony Gerbino: Jacques Lemercier's 'Scenografia du Chasteau de Montjeu': Printmaking, Cartography, and Landscape in 1620
8.Hubertus Fischer: Utopia, Science and Garden Art in the Early Modern Era
III Botany between Art and Science
9.Alessandro Tosi: Botanical illustration and the idea of the garden in the sixteenth century between imitation and imagination
10.Irina Schmiedel: Gardens on Canvas and Paper: Cataloguing Botanical Abundance in Late Medici Tuscany
11.Gregory Grämiger: Reconstructing Order: The Spatial Arrangements of Plants in the Hortus Botanicus of Leiden University in its First Years
12.Carola Piepenbring-Thomas: Garden visits, observations, reading and excerpts. Martin Fogel (1634-1675) and his techniques of acquiring knowledge
IV Botanical Knowledge and Horticulture
13.Anatole Tchikine: Watering the Renaissance Garden: Horticultural Theory and Irrigation Practice in Sixteenth-Century Tuscany
14.Alette Fleischer: Gardening nature, gardening knowledge: The parallel activities of stabilizing knowledge and gardens in the early modern period
15.Ana Duarte Rodriguez: Gardening knowledge through the circulation of agricultural treatises in Portugal from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries
16.Iris Lauterbach: Commerce and Erudition: Civic Self Representation by Botany and Horticulture in Germany, 16th to 18th centuries
V Perspective
17.Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn: Landscape Design and the Natural Sciences in Germany and the United States in the Early Twentieth Century: "Reactionary Modernism"?
Index of names.