« Of a Gardiner, and how he is to be qualified » : Landscape Design and the Mathematical Sciences in the Early Modern Period

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Vendredi 26 avril 2013
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« Of a Gardiner, and how he is to be qualified » : Landscape Design and the Mathematical Sciences in the Early Modern Period

Conference by Prof. Volker REMMERT (University of Wuppertal, Germany)

The early modern mathematical sciences consisted of various fields of knowledge, often with a strong bent toward practical applications such as astronomy, geography, optics, music, practical geometry, acoustics, and architecture as well as arithmetic and geometry. Between 1600 and the mid-18th century practitioners of the mathematical sciences and of gardening and landscape design shared the conviction that they could to a certain extent control and manipulate nature. The methods and knowledge of the mathematical sciences opened up new ways to do so. Such new options deeply affected the realm of landscape design and gardening in various ways and thus reached directly into the political sphere by offering new possibilities and forms of representation – and not only in the gardens of Versailles, which were, perhaps, the most magnificent stage of political representation in seventeenth-century Europe. I’ll discuss these processes by way of a few examples such as John Evelyn’s Elysium Britannicum and Alain Manesson-Mallet’s Géométrie pratique (Paris 1702).

Volker Remmert teaches history of science and technology at the University of Wuppertal in Germany. His main research interests are in the field of Early Modern Science in Europe and in the history of mathematics in Germany in the 19th and 20th centuries. Among his recent publications are Picturing the Scientific Revolution: Title Engravings in Early Modern Scientific Publications (Philadelphia 2011) and Jewish Émigré Mathematicians and Germany, in: Birgit Bergmann/Moritz Epple (eds.): Transcending Tradition: Jewish Mathematicians in German-Speaking Academic Culture (Heidelberg et al. 2012).

Conférence organisée dans le cadre du Séminaire d’histoire de l’art de la première modernité – Early modern art seminar / UdeM, UQAM, McGill, Concordia, Laval

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