Knowing nature : art and science in Philadelphia, 1740-1840 by Meyers, Amy R. W; Ford, Lisa L instant download

Knowing nature : art and science in Philadelphia, 1740-1840 by Meyers, Amy R. W; Ford, Lisa L instant download

xiv, 417 p. : 32 cm, 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