Dear Reader,

We are pleased to announce the release of our new publication:

Journal of Early Modern Studies

Volume 6, issue 1 (Spring 2017)

Gardens as Laboratories. The History of Botany through the History of Gardens 

Invited editors: Fabrizio Baldassarri and Oana Matei

Fabrizio Baldassarri, Introduction: Gardens as laboratories. A history of botanical sciences

Florike Egmond, Experimenting with living nature: documented practices of 16^th-century naturalists and naturalia collectors

María M. Carrión, Planted Knowledge. Art, Science, and Preservation in the 16^th-Century Herbarium from the Hurtado de Mendoza Collection in El Escorial

Ana Duarte Rodrigues, The role of Portuguese Gardens in the development of horticultural and botanical expertise on oranges

Oana Matei, Reconstructing Sylva sylvarum. Ralph Austen’s Observations and the use of experiment

Alette Fleischer, Leaves on the loose: The changing nature of archiving plants and botanical knowledge

Sarah Cawthorne, Experimenting with “Garden Discourse”: Cultivating Knowledge in Thomas Browne’s Garden of Cyrus

Gabriel R. Ricci, Science, Art and the Classical World in the Botanizing Travels of William Bartram

Alexandru Mexi, Early Modern Garden Design Concepts and 20th Century Royal Gardens in Romania. Peleş Castle and the Mannerist Landscape

BOOK REVIEWS 

Endre Szécsényi (ed.), Francis Hutcheson and the Origins of the Aesthetic, special issue of the Journal of Scottish Thought, Vol. 7, Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies, University of Aberdeen, 2016 (Eduard Ghiţă)

Florike Egmond, Eye for Detail. Images of Plants and Animals in Art and Science, 1500-1630, London: Reaktion Books, 2017 (Speranța Sofia Milancovici)

Tamás Demeter, David Hume and the Culture of Scottish Newtonianism: Methodology and Ideology in Enlightenment Inquiry, Boston: Brill, 2016 (Matias Slavov)

We thank you for your consideration and hope you take advantage of this special offer.