Meyers, Amy R. W. (Editor)
Ford, Lisa L. (Editor)
Philadelphia developed the most active scientific community in early America, fostering an influential group of naturalist-artists, including William Bartram, Charles Willson Peale, Alexander Wilson, and John James Audubon, whose work has been addressed by many monographic studies. However, as the groundbreaking essays in Knowing Nature demonstrate, the examination of nature stimulated not only forms of artistic production traditionally associated with scientific practice of the day, but processes of making not ordinarily linked to science. The often surprisingly intimate connections between and among these creative act`ivities and the objects they engendered are explored through the essays in this book, chall`enging the hierarchy that is generally assumed to have been at play in the study of nature, from the natural sciences through the fine and decorative arts, and, ultimately, popular and material culture. Indeed, the many ways in which the means of knowing nature were reversed---in which artistic and artisanal culture informed scientific interpretations of the natural world---forms a central theme of this pioneering publication. 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 -- Surprising oddness and beauty : textile design and natural history between London and Philadelphia in the eighteenth century / Alicia Weisberg-Roberts -- Cultivating interiors : Philadelphia, China, and the natural world / Janice L. Neri -- Illustrating nature : institutional support for art and science in Philadelphia, 1770-1830 / Robert McCracken Peck -- The rattlesnake : Benjamin Henry Latrobe and the place of art in America / Alexander Nemerov -- Hand-coloring vs. color printing : early-nineteenth-century natural history color-plate books / James N. Green -- A world of uses : Philadelphia's contributions to useful knowledge in François-André Michaux's North American Sylva / Lisa L. Ford -- 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.
...MoreReview Gronim, Sara Stidstone (2013) Review of "Knowing Nature: Art and Science in Philadelphia, 1740--1840". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 164-165).
Chapter Pritchard, Margaret (2011) A Protracted View: The Relationship between Mapmakers and Naturalists in Recording the Land. In: Knowing Nature: Art and Science in Philadelphia, 1740--1840.
Chapter O'Malley, Therese (2011) Cultivated Lives, Cultivated Spaces: The Scientific Garden in Philadelphia, 1740--1840. In: Knowing Nature: Art and Science in Philadelphia, 1740--1840.
Chapter Fry, Joel T. (2011) America's “Ancient Garden”: The Bartram Botanic Garden, 1728--1850. In: Knowing Nature: Art and Science in Philadelphia, 1740--1840.
Chapter Laird, Mark (2011) This Other Eden: The American Connection in Georgian Pleasure Grounds, from Shrubbery and Menagerie to Aviary and Flower Garden. In: Knowing Nature: Art and Science in Philadelphia, 1740--1840.
Chapter Meyers, Amy (2011) From Nature and Memory: William Bartram's Drawings of North American Flora and Fauna. In: Knowing Nature: Art and Science in Philadelphia, 1740--1840.
Chapter Weisberg-Roberts, Alicia (2011) Surprising Oddness and Beauty: Textile Design and Natural History between London and Philadelphia in the Eighteenth Century. In: Knowing Nature: Art and Science in Philadelphia, 1740--1840.
Chapter Neri, Janice L. (2011) Cultivating Interiors: Philadelphia, China, and the Natural World. In: Knowing Nature: Art and Science in Philadelphia, 1740--1840.
Chapter Peck, Robert McCracken (2011) Illustrating Nature: Institutional Support for Art and Science in Philadelphia, 1770--1830. In: Knowing Nature: Art and Science in Philadelphia, 1740--1840.
Chapter Nemerov, Alexander (2011) The Rattlesnake: Benjamin Henry Latrobe and the Place of Art in America. In: Knowing Nature: Art and Science in Philadelphia, 1740--1840.
Chapter Green, James N. (2011) Hand-Coloring vs. Color Printing: Early-Nineteenth-Century Natural History Color-Plate Books. In: Knowing Nature: Art and Science in Philadelphia, 1740--1840.
Chapter Ford, Lisa L. (2011) A World of Uses: Philadelphia's Contributions to Useful Knowledge in François-André Michaux's North American Sylva. In: Knowing Nature: Art and Science in Philadelphia, 1740--1840.
Chapter Cox, Robert S. (2011) The Pious Pursuit of Agriculture: Nature, Culture, and Exchange in Quaker-Seneca Missions. In: Knowing Nature: Art and Science in Philadelphia, 1740--1840.
Chapter Haltman, Kenneth (2011) The Pictorial Legacy of Lewis and Clark. In: Knowing Nature: Art and Science in Philadelphia, 1740--1840.
Chapter Nemerov, Alexander (2011) A World Too Much: Democracy and Natural History in Godman and Audubon. In: Knowing Nature: Art and Science in Philadelphia, 1740--1840.
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