Images botaniques entre l’art et la science : Essai d’une typologie des différents types d’images
The eighteenth-century recollection of botanical images and books of four centuries compiled by Christoph Jacob Trew, a Nuremberg doctor who had developed a profound interest in the history of science, neatly documents the common and divided history of artistic and scientific representation of plant...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fra |
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Centre d´Histoire et Théorie des Arts
2021-06-01
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| Series: | Images Re-Vues |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/imagesrevues/10265 |
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| Summary: | The eighteenth-century recollection of botanical images and books of four centuries compiled by Christoph Jacob Trew, a Nuremberg doctor who had developed a profound interest in the history of science, neatly documents the common and divided history of artistic and scientific representation of plants. The question of their systematic differentiation derives from a historical comparison between the two: how, since when, and why are these pictorial types of artistic and scientific representations to be distinguished? The « close readings » of the visual history of two plants, the Strawberry and the Iris, which are represented in many botanical books of that period and thus offer the chance of direct comparison, want to explain this process of differentiation. A number of major scientific innovations are recognized as pivotal turning points, including the invention of visual instruments (magnifying glass, microscope), the need for a methodology of unequivocal nomenclature (René Descartes), and finally Carl Linnaeus’ taxonomy of plants carefully laid out in his Systema naturae (1735). Subsequently, much doubt was being cast on the direct link between vision and knowledge, and the epistemological interest in botany was being contrasted with the individual representation of nature. |
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| ISSN: | 1778-3801 |