Utopia's Garden: French Natural History from Old Regime to Revolution
Autor E. C. Sparyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 dec 2000
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.
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.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780226768632
ISBN-10: 0226768635
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: 15 halftones, 3 maps, 1 table
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10: 0226768635
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: 15 halftones, 3 maps, 1 table
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
Notă biografică
E. C. Spary is a senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for History of Science, Berlin, Germany. She is coeditor of Cultures of Natural History.
Cuprins
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. The Place of Histoire naturelle at the Jardin du Roi
2. Acting at a Distance: André Thouin and the Function of Botanical Networks
3. Naturalizing the Tree of Liberty: Generation, Degeneration, and Regeneration in the Jardin du Roi
4. Patronage, Community, and Power: Strategies of Self-Presentation in New Regimes
5. The Spectacle of Nature: The Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle and the Jacobins
Conclusion: Possible Futures
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. The Place of Histoire naturelle at the Jardin du Roi
2. Acting at a Distance: André Thouin and the Function of Botanical Networks
3. Naturalizing the Tree of Liberty: Generation, Degeneration, and Regeneration in the Jardin du Roi
4. Patronage, Community, and Power: Strategies of Self-Presentation in New Regimes
5. The Spectacle of Nature: The Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle and the Jacobins
Conclusion: Possible Futures
Appendix
Bibliography
Index