Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes

SPECIAL ISSUE

Designing Botanical Gardens: Science, Culture and Sociability

Guest Edited by Nicolas Robin
Volume 28, Number 3-4

Botanical gardens are places where knowledge is gathered, preserved, imparted
and experimented with. They are places of scientific practice and communication
where architectural and aesthetic concepts have only a supportive role serving
botanical experimentation as well as the presentation of plant systematics.
Botanical gardens are conventionally regarded as encyclopaedias planted for
reference and, consequently, as a balance against the fixed and theoretical
knowledge available through herbaria and botanical literature. 

This volume includes most of the papers presented during a symposium entitled
“Botanical Gardens within Global and Local Dynamics — Sociability,
Professionalization and Diffusion of Knowledge” and has been completed
with papers focusing particularly on design and science within botanical
gardens. In putting botanical gardens in their scientific and social context, I
hope that we can contribute with this set of papers to a better understanding of
the identity of botanical gardens as scientific institutions within a global
history of gardens.

CONTENT OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE

Botanical Gardens and the Culture of Science

Private Botanical Gardens in Russia: Between Noble Culture and Scientific
Professionalization
Olga Elina

The First Botanical Gardens in Geneva (CA. 1750-1830): Private Initiative
Leading Science
René Sigrist & Patrick Bungener

Hortus Regius Pillitziensis. Frederick Augustus the Just and the Royal Botanical
Garden in Pillnitz
Stéfanie Melzer

Three Little Known Botanical Gardens at Versailles (1762-1851): A Comparative
Analysis of their Projects and of the Social and Intellectual Trajectory of
their Founders
Antoine Jacobsohn

Discussing the Influence of Scientific Theories on the Design of Botanical
Gardens around 1800
Nicolas Robin

State and Society, Botanical Gardens within Global and Local Dynamics

What Shaped Brussels’ Botanical Garden (1826-1912)? Botany and its
Numerous Competitors Duetting or Duelling?
Denis Diagre-Vanderpelen

Space, State, Territory, Region and Habitat? Alpine Gardens in the Habsburg
Countries
Marianne Klemun

The ‘Society of Corresponding Botanists’ as
‘Pflanzschule’ for Botanical Gardens
Bastin Rother, Uta Monecke & Daniela Feistauer

Balancing the Interplay between Botanical Gardens and Schools: The Work of
William Hales and Lilian Clarke
Dawn Sanders

The Irish Botanical Garden: For Ireland or for Empire?
Finola O’Kane

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