Note: Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Scientization and Knowledge About Nature -- The Art of Garden and Landscape Design and the Mathematical Sciences in the Early Modern Period -- The Mathematical Sciences in Early Modern Europe -- What Happens in a Garden? -- What Is a Gardener? -- Control of Nature and Belief in Progress -- The Mathematical Sciences and Garden Design -- Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- Sources -- Secondary Literature -- ``Without Design, or Fate, or Force´´: Why Couldn´t John Evelyn Complete the Elysium Britannicum? -- The Culture of Knowledge and Communication in Evelyn´s Lifetime -- Evelyn´s Subordinate Position in the Pantheon -- Evelyn and Religio-political Crisis -- Evelyn and Bacon -- Evelyn and Epicurus -- Bibliography -- Sources -- Secondary Literature -- The Power of the Sun-King at the Potager du Roi -- Natural Knowledge and State Power -- The Gardens of Versailles -- Horticulture and Collection -- Gardening by Force -- Exercising Stewardship -- The Effects of the Sun -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Sources -- Secondary Literature -- Part II: Mathematical Sciences and the Art of Gardening -- The Organ of the Villa d´Este in Tivoli and the Standards of Pneumatic Engineering in the Renaissance -- The Garden of Tivoli and Its Organ -- Oreste Vannocci Biringucci´s Text -- The Organ of the Garden of Pratolino -- The Technical Solution of the Choking Vessel -- The Control of Air Turbulences in the Organ of Tivoli -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Bibliography -- Sources -- Secondary Literature -- Sundials on the Quirinal: Astronomy and the Early Modern Garden -- Astronomy and the Quirinal Gardens from Gregory XIII to Urban VIII -- Galileo in the Gardens of Baroque Rome -- The Sundials of the Jesuit Garden of Sant´Andrea del Quirinale -- Sundials and Astronomical Debates in Baroque Rome. , The Image of the Sundial as an Architectural Source? -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Sources -- Secondary Literature -- Jacques Lemercier´s Scenografia of Montjeu: Architectural Prints, Cartography, and Landscape in 1620 -- Introduction -- The Site -- The Design -- The Drawing -- Bibliography -- Sources -- Secondary Literature -- Utopia, Science and Garden Art in the Early Modern Era -- Urban Utopia and the Theory of Architecture -- Architecture as a Science: The Forms and Dimensions of the Gardens in Sforzinda -- Constructed Divertimenti -- In the Centre of the World: Hanging Gardens -- From Sforzinda to Christianopolis: The Increasing Trend Towards Science and Edification -- Nova Solyma or Putting Garden Art into Perspective -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Sources -- Secondary Literature -- Part III: Botany Between Art and Science -- Botanical Illustration and the Idea of the Garden in the Sixteenth Century Between Imitation and Imagination -- In Brunfels´ Garden -- The Botanical Garden -- Images of Gardens -- Bibliography -- Sources -- Secondary Literature -- Gardens on Canvas and Paper: Cataloguing Botanical Abundance in Late Medici Tuscany -- All Kinds of Fruit: Bimbi´s Paintings and Micheli´s Lists for Cosimo III -- The Glory of Hercules: Territorial and Intellectual Statements -- Variety and Wonder: Traditions of Collecting and Display -- Progress and Discoveries? The Range of Princely Patronage -- Bibliography -- Sources, Primary Literature -- Secondary Literature -- Reconstructing Order: The Spatial Arrangements of Plants in the Hortus Botanicus of Leiden University in Its First Years -- Introduction -- Index Stirpium (1594) -- The First Printed Catalogue -- The Arrangement of Plants -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Unpublished Sources -- Printed Sources -- Secondary Literature. , Garden Visits, Observations, Reading and Excerpts: Martin Fogel (1634-1675) and His Techniques of Acquiring Knowledge -- Introduction -- Fogel´s Biography -- The Book Collection -- The Collection of Slips of Paper -- The Travel Diary -- Bibliography -- Sources -- Secondary Literature -- Part IV: Botanical Knowledge and Horticulture -- Watering the Renaissance Garden: Horticultural Theory and Irrigation Practice in Sixteenth-Century Tuscany -- Introduction -- Creating a Water Supply -- The Uses of Watering -- Watering Rules and Techniques -- Utilizing Running Water -- Irrigation and Design -- Bibliography -- Manuscript Sources -- Printed Sources -- Secondary Literature -- Gardening Nature, Gardening Knowledge: The Parallel Activities of Stabilizing Knowledge and Gardens in the Early Modern Period -- Shipping Plants and Seeds -- Producing Botanical Books -- Renamed Plants and Replanted Nature -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Sources: Printed -- Manuscript -- Secondary Literature -- Gardening Knowledge Through the Circulation of Agricultural Treatises in Portugal From the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries -- Introduction -- State of the Art -- Methodology -- The Agricultural Treatises Circulating in Portugal from the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries -- The Preponderance of Spanish Agricultural Treatises -- The Growth in Importance of the French Treatises Throughout This Period -- Comparing the Circulation of Agricultural Treatises in Portugal With That in Other Countries -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Commerce and Erudition: Civic Self-Representation Through Botany and Horticulture in Germany, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries -- Augsburg -- Breslau -- Frankfurt, Hamburg, Nuremberg -- Nuremberg: The Volkamer Family -- Bibliography -- Sources -- Secondary Literature -- Part V: Perspective. , Landscape Design and the Natural Sciences in Germany and the United States in the Early Twentieth Century: ``Reactionary Moder... -- The Ideology of the Naturgarten (Nature Garden) in Germany -- Garden Architect Willy Lange, the Naturgarten (Nature Garden) and the Natural Sciences -- Landscape Types and Natural Garden Design -- Austrian Examples for Lange´s Ideas About Natural Garden Design? -- The Naturgarten as an Expression of ``Reactionary Modernism´´? -- Tendencies of Natural Garden Design in the United States: The Example of Frank A. Waugh -- William Miller and Jens Jensen: Advocates of the Prairie Style of Landscape Gardening -- Bibliography -- Sources -- Secondary Literature -- Index.