Philadelphia developed the most active scientific community in
early America, fostering an influential group of
naturalist-artists, including William Bartram, Charles Willson
Peale, Alexander Wilson, and John James Audubon, whose work has
been addressed by many monographic studies. However, as the
groundbreaking essays in "Knowing Nature" demonstrate, the
examination of nature stimulated not only forms of artistic
production traditionally associated with scientific practice of the
day, but processes of making not ordinarily linked to science. The
often surprisingly intimate connections between and among these
creative activities and the objects they engendered are explored
through the essays in this book, challenging the hierarchy that is
generally assumed to have been at play in the study of nature, from
the natural sciences through the fine and decorative arts, and,
ultimately, popular and material culture. Indeed, the many ways in
which the means of knowing nature were reversed--in which artistic
and artisanal culture informed scientific interpretations of the
natural world--forms a central theme of this pioneering
publication.
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