Book ID: 92197
Spary, E. C.
Utopia's Garden. French Natural History from Old Regime to Revolution. 2000. 15 halftones. 3 maps. 1 tab. 304 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.
The author traces the scientific, administrative, and politicalstrategies that enabled the foundation of the Museum d'HistoireNaturelle. Contents (partly): The Place of Histoire naturelle at theJardin du Roi/ Acting at a Distance: Andre Thouin and the Function ofBotanical Networks/ Naturalizing the Tree of Liberty: Generation, Degeneration, and Regeneration in the Jardin du Roi/ Patronage, Community, and Power: Strategies of Self-Presentation in New Regimes/The Spectacle of Nature: The Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle and the Jacobins/ etc.