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LOCATION:Université de Montréal - Carrefour des arts et des sciences\, 31
 50\, rue Jean-Brillant \, Montréal\, QC\, Canada\, H3T 1N8
SUMMARY:« Of a Gardiner\, and how he is to be qualified » : Landscape Des
 ign and the Mathematical Sciences in the Early Modern Period
DESCRIPTION:Conference by Prof. Volker REMMERT (University of Wuppertal\, G
 ermany) The early modern mathematical sciences consisted of various fields
  of knowledge\, often with a strong bent toward practical applications suc
 h as astronomy\, geography\, optics\, music\, practical geometry\, acousti
 cs\, and architecture as well as arithmetic and geometry. Between 1600 and
  the mid-18th century practitioners of the mathematical sciences and of ga
 rdening and landscape design shared the conviction that they could to a ce
 rtain extent control and manipulate nature. The methods and knowledge of t
 he mathematical sciences opened up new ways to do so. Such new options dee
 ply affected the realm of landscape design and gardening in various ways a
 nd thus reached directly into the political sphere by offering new possibi
 lities and forms of representation – and not only in the gardens of Vers
 ailles\, which were\, perhaps\, the most magnificent stage of political re
 presentation 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 Remmer
 t 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 Scien
 tific 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 Mathem
 aticians in German-Speaking Academic Culture (Heidelberg et al. 2012). Con
 férence organisée dans le cadre du Séminaire d’histoire de l’art de
  la première modernité – Early modern art seminar / UdeM\, UQAM\, McGi
 ll\, Concordia\, Laval
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