Preface / Elizabeth Cropper
Introduction / Therese O'Malley and Amy R. W. Meyers
Artisanal Knowledge and the Representation of Nature in Sixteenth-Century Germany / Pamela H. Smith
Botany and Humanism in the Renaissance: Background, Interaction, Contradictions / Alain Touwaide
Uses of Botanical Treatises in the Netherlands, c. 1600 / Claudia Swan
Between Observation and Image: Representations of Insects in Robert Hooke's Micrographia / Janice Neri
Eyes of the New Pliny: The Use of Images in Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo's Historia general y natural de las Indias / Jesus Carrillo Castillo
Mexican Nature in Diego Valades' Rhetorica christiana (1579) / Lina Bolzoni
From Florence to Philadelphia: Naturalistic Illustration in Tuscany, c. 1760-c. 1840 / Alessandro Tosi
"La femminil pazienza": Women Painters and Natural History in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries / Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi
Garden Book Made for Emperor Rudolf II in 1593: Hans Puechfeldner's Nutzliches Khunstbuech der Gartnereij / Erik A. de Jong
"Cosmic Delight": Bartolomeo Bimbi and the Representation of Nature at the Court of Cosimo III de' Medici / Hans W. Hubert
Congenial Climate of Coffeehouse Horticulture: The Historia plantarum rariorum and the Catalogus plantarum / Mark Laird
Appendix. Club at the Temple Coffee House / Margaret Riley.
