Visualising the unseen, imagining the unknown, perfecting the natural: art and science in the 18th and 19th centuries

Contents

Training the naturalist's eye in the eighteenth century : perfect global visions and local blind spots / Daniela Bleichmar -- "Art is to life as flowers are to nature" : vegetable visions during the French Revolution / Paula Young Lee -- Robert Thornton's A new illustration : imaging and imagining nation and empire / Meghan Doherty -- Newtonian science and Lockean epistemology in Chardin's Soap bubbles / Gabriela Jasin -- Rendering the surface and penetrating the depths in Joseph Wright's Derbyshire landscapes / Andrew Graciano -- Darwin or Dionysus? The fabulous beasts of Arnold Böcklin / Alexandra Karl -- Touched by science : Albert Besnard's painted programme for the School of Pharmacy in Paris / Maria Gindhart -- The complexity of a "simple Greek statue" : classicism in the age of evolution / Martha Lucy.