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Author:   Rebecca Bushnell
Publisher:   University of Pennsylvania Press
Imprint:   University of Pennsylvania Press
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9780812224733

ISBN 10:   0812224736
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   12 March 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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"Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1. Natural Philosophy and Natural Knowledge Hebrew Bible, Genesis 1 Aristotle, Physics Lucretius, De rerum natura, or On the Nature of Things Pliny the Elder, Naturalis historia, or Natural History, On the Nature of the Earth Avicenna, The Canon of Medicine, On the Elements Hildegard of Bingen, Causae et curae, or Causes and Cures Alain de Lille, De planctu naturae, or The Complaint of Nature Roger Bacon, Opus majus, or Greater Work Saint Thomas Aquinas, Quaestiones disputatae de potentia dei, or Disputed Questions on the Power of God Pseudo-Albertus Magnus, The Book of the Secrets of Albertus Magnus Giambattista della Porta, Magia naturalis, or Natural Magic Guillaume du Bartas, La sepmaine ou creation du monde, or Divine Weeks and Works, On the Seventh Day Hugh Platt, Floraes Paradise Francis Bacon, Novum organum, or New Organon, and New Atlantis Hannah Wolley, The Ladies Directory Margaret Cavendish, The Blazing World Thomas Sprat, History of the Royal Society Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, ""First Dream"" Part 2. Plants Theophrastus, De causis plantarum, or On the Causes of Plants Aristotle, De anima, or Of the Soul Dioscorides, De materia medica, or Herbal Pliny the Elder, Naturalis historia, or Natural History, On Flowers Pseudo-Apuleius, The Old English Herbarium Geoffrey Chaucer, The Legend of Good Women Pierre de Ronsard, ""Ode to Cassandra"" Leonhart Fuchs, De historia stirpium, or On the History of Plants William Turner, A New Herbal John Gerard, The Herbal or General History of Plants Guillaume Du Bartas, La sepmaine ou creation du monde, or Divine Weeks and Works, On Aconite William Lawson, A New Orchard and Garden, On the Cultivation of Trees John Parkinson, Paradisi in Sole: Paradisus Terrestris, On Auriculas George Herbert, ""The Flower"" Ralph Austen, A Treatise of Fruit Trees, and The Spiritual Use of an Orchard or Garden of Fruit Trees Johanna St. John, Manuscript Recipes Samuel Gilbert,Florist's Vade-Mecum, On Auriculas Part 3. Animals Aristotle, Historia animalium, or The History of Animals Pliny the Elder, Naturalis historia, or Natural History, On Animals Physiologus Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De proprietatibus rerum, or On the Properties of Things Second-Family Bestiary Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Geoffrey Chaucer, The Parliament of Fowls Marie de France, Fables John Lydgate, ""The Debate of the Horse, Goose, and Sheep"" Anselm Turmeda, The Disputation of the Donkey Michel de Montaigne, ""An Apology for Raymond Sebond"" John Caius, Of English Dogges Thomas Johnson, Cornucopiae Edward Topsell, The History of Four-Footed Beasts Gervase Markham, Markham's Masterpiece Hester Pulter, ""The Ugly Spider"" Richard Lovelace, ""The Snail"" Margaret Cavendish, Grounds of Natural Philosophy Robert Hooke, Micrographia Part 4. Weather, Climate, and Seasons Hippocrates, Airs, Waters, Places Aristotle, Meteorologica, or Meteorology Virgil, Georgics, Book 1, On the Storm Pseudo-Aristotle, Secreta secretorum, or The Secret of Secrets Avicenna, The Canon of Medicine, On Climate Wandalbert of Prüm, On the Names, Signs, Times of Planting, and Qualities of Weather of the Twelve Months William Ram, Rams Little Dodoen Thomas Tusser, An Hundredth Points of Good Husbandrie William Shakespeare, King Lear Amelia Lanyer, ""The Description of Cookham"" William Shakespeare, The Tempest Thomas Jackson, The Raging Tempest Stilled Thomas Sprat and Robert Hooke, History of the Royal Society, On Weather Samuel Gilbert, Florist's Vade-Mecum, Instructions for July Part 5. Inhabiting the Land Theocritus, Idyll 7 Virgil, Eclogue 1 Virgil, Georgics, On Farming Columella, Res rustica, or On Agriculture, On Farming Walter of Henley, Dite de hosbondrie, or Boke of Husbandry William Langland, Piers Plowman Second Shepherd's Play, from the Wakefield Mystery Plays Jacopo Sannazaro, Arcadia Thomas More, Utopia Thomas Tusser, Five Hundredth Points of Good Husbandrie William Harrison, Description of England Edmund Spenser, The Shephearde's Calendar Gervase Markham, The English Husbandman, On Farming Ben Jonson, ""To Penshurst"" Mary Wroth, Urania Robert Herrick, ""The Hock-Cart, or Harvest Home"" Walter Blith, The English Improver Improved Part 6. Gardens and Gardening Columella, Res rustica, or On Agriculture, On Gardens Pietro de' Crescenzi, Liber ruralium commodorum, or Book of Rural Commodity Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Le roman de la rose, or The Romance of the Rose Nicolas Bollard, On Planting and Grafting Thomas Hill, The Gardener's Labyrinth Robert Laneham, Description of the Garden at Kenilworth Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene Gervase Markham, The English Husbandman, On Grafting William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale William Lawson, A New Orchard and Garden and The Countrie Housewife's Garden, On Domestic Gardening John Parkinson, Paradisi in Sole: Paradisus Terrestris, On Nature and Gardening Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort, Description of Her Garden René Rapin, Hortorum Libri IV, or Of Gardens Andrew Marvell, ""The Mower Against Gardens"" Hester Pulter, ""The Snail, the Tulip, and the Bee"" John Evelyn, Elysium Britannicum, or The Royal Gardens John Worlidge, Systema Horticulturae, or The Art of Gardening in Three Books Part 7. Outlandish Natural Worlds Pliny the Elder, Naturalis historia, or Natural History, On Arabia, Ethiopia, and the Fortunate Isles John Mandeville, Travels Leo Africanus, Della descrittione dell'Africa, or Description of Africa Jean de Léry, Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre de Brésil, or History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil Thomas Harriot, Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia Walter Raleigh, Discovery of the Large, Rich, and Beautiful Empire of Guiana Michael Drayton, ""Ode: To the Virginian Voyage"" John Parkinson, Theatrum Botanicum Thomas Sprat, History of the Royal Society, Observations on Java Aphra Behn, Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave: A True History Recommended Reading and Bibliography Permissions to Reprint Index"

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[A]n invaluable addition to the growing list of anthologies on this topic, not least because it offers an unusually expansive scope (Antiquity to 1700), but also because its contextual material is enormously readable and informative; each section provides a solid grounding in nature writing that situates the readings topically and with a sense of their position in time and place... Bushnell's anthology serves to rewrite natural history in important ways, shifting the usual narratives. It also demonstrates how the teleology of human interactions with the landscapes they inhabit is as uncertain, perhaps even as unpredictable, as the particulars of the seasons themselves; and it illustrates how that natural history was inscribed in the soil as well as on the page, by those who toiled as well as those who imagined. * Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment *

"""[A]n invaluable addition to the growing list of anthologies on this topic, not least because it offers an unusually expansive scope (Antiquity to 1700), but also because its contextual material is enormously readable and informative; each section provides a solid grounding in nature writing that situates the readings topically and with a sense of their position in time and place… Bushnell’s anthology serves to rewrite natural history in important ways, shifting the usual narratives. It also demonstrates how the teleology of human interactions with the landscapes they inhabit is as uncertain, perhaps even as unpredictable, as the particulars of the seasons themselves; and it illustrates how that natural history was inscribed in the soil as well as on the page, by those who toiled as well as those who imagined."" * Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment *"

[A]n invaluable addition to the growing list of anthologies on this topic, not least because it offers an unusually expansive scope (Antiquity to 1700), but also because its contextual material is enormously readable and informative; each section provides a solid grounding in nature writing that situates the readings topically and with a sense of their position in time and place... Bushnell's anthology serves to rewrite natural history in important ways, shifting the usual narratives. It also demonstrates how the teleology of human interactions with the landscapes they inhabit is as uncertain, perhaps even as unpredictable, as the particulars of the seasons themselves; and it illustrates how that natural history was inscribed in the soil as well as on the page, by those who toiled as well as those who imagined.-- Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment

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Rebecca Bushnell is the School of Arts and Sciences Board of Overseers Emerita Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Green Desire: Imagining Early Modern English Gardens among other books.

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