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Knowing nature : art and science in Philadelphia, 1740-1840
- Title
- Knowing nature : art and science in Philadelphia, 1740-1840 / edited by Amy R.W. Meyers, with the assistance of Lisa L. Ford.
- Publication
- New Haven : Yale University Press, c2011.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JQG 12-141 | Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300 |
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- Description
- xiv, 417 p. : chiefly col. ill., maps (some col.); 32 cm.
- Alternative Title
- Art and science in Philadelphia, 1740-1840
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JQG 12-141
- ISBN
- 9780300111040 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0300111045 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2010003121
- OCLC
- YBP 2010003121
- Title
- Knowing nature : art and science in Philadelphia, 1740-1840 / edited by Amy R.W. Meyers, with the assistance of Lisa L. Ford.
- Imprint
- New Haven : Yale University Press, c2011.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Meyers, Amy R. W.Ford, Lisa L.
- Research Call Number
- JQG 12-141