Utopia's Garden

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226768708
Total Pages : 339 pages
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Book Synopsis Utopia's Garden by : E. C. Spary

Download or read book Utopia's Garden written by E. C. Spary and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The royal Parisian botanical garden, the Jardin du Roi, was a jewel in the crown of the French Old Regime, praised by both rulers and scientific practitioners. Yet unlike many such institutions, the Jardin not only survived the French Revolution but by 1800 had become the world's leading public establishment of natural history: the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. E. C. Spary traces the scientific, administrative, and political strategies that enabled the foundation of the Muséum, arguing that agriculture and animal breeding rank alongside classification and collections in explaining why natural history was important for French rulers. But the Muséum's success was also a consequence of its employees' Revolutionary rhetoric: by displaying the natural order, they suggested, the institution could assist in fashioning a self-educating, self-policing Republican people. Natural history was presented as an indispensable source of national prosperity and individual virtue. Spary's fascinating account opens a new chapter in the history of France, science, and the Enlightenment.

Rousseau's Elysium

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Publisher : Sidestone Press
ISBN 13 : 9088900906
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (889 download)

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Book Synopsis Rousseau's Elysium by : Gerard J. van den Broek

Download or read book Rousseau's Elysium written by Gerard J. van den Broek and published by Sidestone Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) is generally seen as one of the most important figures whose ideas had a great influence on the French Revolution (1789). Many immediately associate him with the concept of "the noble savage." However, just as with his political and philosophical writings, his love for botany and scenery would change the landscape of continental Europe, if not the world. This book presents a unique view of the young Rousseau's awakening love for plants, and his sometimes euphoric appreciation of the scenery during his endless walks. The author unfolds the development of Rousseau's concept of nature, which makes it possible to pinpoint the exact and pivotal moment of change in his thinking about the natural environment. This culminated in a vision that converged with the the Marquis de Girardin's ideas about landscaping. The reader follows the Marquis during the development of the first English Garden in France, where Rousseau probably spent the happiest weeks of his life. While the park represents Rousseau's dream come true, it was destined to become the place of both his death and his tomb. In text and photographs this book captures the character of the park, built around the concepts of two men of fundamentally different character. It is the park's intricate mixture of bliss and gloominess that put a spell on the reader and every visitor.

British Museum Catalogue of printed Books

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Total Pages : 720 pages
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Bibliographia Botanica

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Total Pages : 482 pages
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Botanophilia in Eighteenth-Century France

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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401598495
Total Pages : 224 pages
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Book Synopsis Botanophilia in Eighteenth-Century France by : R.L. Williams

Download or read book Botanophilia in Eighteenth-Century France written by R.L. Williams and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book describes the innovations that enabled botany, in the Eighteenth century, to emerge as an independent science, independent from medicine and herbalism. This encompassed the development of a reliable system for plant classification and the invention of a nomenclature that could be universally applied and understood. The key that enabled Linnaeus to devise his classification system was the discovery of the sexuality of plants. The book, which is intended for the educated general reader, proceeds to illustrate how many aspects of French life were permeated by this revolution in botany between about 1760 to 1815, a botanophilia sometimes inflated into botanomania. The reader should emerge with a clearer understanding of what the Enlightenment actually was in contrast to some popular second-hand ideas today.

Bookseller's catalogues

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
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Taxonomic Literature

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Total Pages : 1232 pages
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Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum ...

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Total Pages : 1058 pages
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Herbarium/verbarium

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Total Pages : 192 pages
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Download or read book Herbarium/verbarium written by Claudette Sartiliot and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As poetic symbols or scientific models, flowers have often been invoked to explain nature's harmonizing of expression, attraction, and reproduction. Words can lie, but flowers seem to speak plainly nature's own language. Flowers thrive as both botanical and literary phenomena in the works of Goethe, Rousseau, and Ruskin and serve as essential points of reference for Rilke, Proust, Genet, Ponge, Cixous, Derrida, and many others. This book explores the links between the flowers of nature and the flowers of metaphor. No longer rooted in a system of symbols, as they have been in many times and cultures, the flowers of modern literature are ambiguous and changeable. As examples of nature's finery and plenitude they justify not only finery and plentitude, but also questions and contradictions. They are flagrantly colorful or delicate and secretive. Yet throughout the Western traditional flowers have most frequently been considered feminine by male and female writers alike. It is this attachment that Sartiliot pursues to the end, questioning the place of flowers in Cixous's writings and in contemporary feminism.

The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints

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Total Pages : 712 pages
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The Monthly Magazine

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Total Pages : 694 pages
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Mon-Khmer Studies

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Total Pages : 778 pages
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The British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books, 1881-1900

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 916 pages
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General Catalogue of Printed Books

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Total Pages : 650 pages
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Download or read book General Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

General Catalogue of Printed Books

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Total Pages : 624 pages
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Download or read book General Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
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Download or read book The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975 written by British Library and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Le botaniste sans maitre

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
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Download or read book Le botaniste sans maitre written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and published by . This book was released on 1805 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: