Seventeenth-century Water Gardens and the Birth of Modern Scientific thought in Oxford

Seventeenth-century Water Gardens and the Birth of Modern Scientific thought in Oxford

The Case of Hanwell Castle

Wass, Stephen

Oxbow Books

11/2022

240

Mole

Inglês

9781914427169

15 a 20 dias

Preface: Robert Plot and Sir Anthony Cope

1. Introduction

The Study of Gardens in Theory and Practice

Hanwell: Geology, Geography, Archaeology and History

2. The Sixteenth Century

William Cope and the Building of Hanwell House

The Origins of Early Modern Water Gardens

Water Gardens in the Sixteenth Century

3. The Seventeenth Century

Continental Engineers and their Influence

The Copes in Ascendancy

Walter Cope's Water Maze

Francis Bacon, Gardening and The New Atlantis

Thomas Bushell and the Enstone Marvels

Other Early Seventeenth-Century Water Gardens

4. At Hanwell House

The Archaeology of the Gardens 1600-1660

Sir Anthony Cope, the Fourth Baronet

Sir Anthony Cope in his Social Setting

Hanwell, Cope and Plot

Sir Anthony's Companions

The Archaeology of the Gardens 1660-1675

Reconstructing the House of Diversion

The Hanwell Pots and Other Finds

5. The End of it All

The Aftermath, the Family and Estate after 1675

The Archaeology of the Gardens from 1675 to the Present Day

6. Oxford, Science and Gardening

Oxford, Hanwell and Early Scientific Thinking

Gardens and Science

The Tangley Mystery and Hanwell as the New Atlantis

Conclusions
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archaeological excavation; Archaeological Method & Theory; assemblage; Copes; deposits; garden; Hanwell Castle; John Claridge; Landscape & Nature/Gardens & Gardening; north Oxfordshire; Oxford; post-medieval archaeology; Richard Allestree; Robert Plot; scientific thinking; seventeenth century; Sir Anthony Cope; terracotta garden urns; The New Atlantis; Thomas Baltzar