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Item specifics
- Condition
- Pages
- 676
- Subject Area
- Natural History
- Publication Date
- 2011-09-29
- Book Title
- The Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas: The Natur
- ISBN
- 9780773538764
- Publication Name
- Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas : The Natural History of the New World, Histoire Naturelle des Indes Occidentales
- Item Length
- 12in
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Series
- Mcgill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in Art History Ser.
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 2.4in
- Item Width
- 9in
- Item Weight
- 108.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 676 Pages
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Part art, part science, part anthropology, this ambitious project presents an early Canadian perspective on natural history that is as much artistic and fantastical as it is encyclopedic. Edited and introduced by François-Marc Gagnon, The Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas showcases an intriguing attempt to document the life of the new world - flora, fauna, and aboriginal. The book brings together for the first time the illustrated Codex Canadensis and The Natural History of the New World, following Gagnon's argument that both can be attributed to Louis Nicolas, a French Jesuit priest who travelled throughout Canada between 1664 and 1675. Histoire Naturelle des Indes Occidentales, originally written in classical French, has been put in modern French by Réal Ouellet and translated into English by Nancy Senior. The Natural History presents a pre-Linnaean botany and pre-Darwinian account of living things, including hundreds of species of plants and vivid descriptions of wildlife. It is thoroughly annotated, focusing on the contemporary identification of species, as the result of a pan-Canadian collaboration of experts in fields from linguistics to biology and botany. The Codex Canadensis, currently in the collection of the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is reproduced in full and provides both a fascinating visual account of wildlife as Nicolas saw it and a rare example of early Canadian art. Gagnon's introduction profiles Louis Nicolas and analyses connections between his work and European examples of natural illustration from the period. The Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas shows how the wildlife and native inhabitants of the new world were understood and documented by a seventeenth-century European and makes available fundamental documents in the history and visual culture of early North America.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
ISBN-10
0773538763
ISBN-13
9780773538764
eBay Product ID (ePID)
109151412
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas : The Natural History of the New World, Histoire Naturelle des Indes Occidentales
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Series
Mcgill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in Art History Ser.
Publication Year
2011
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
676 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
12in
Item Height
2.4in
Item Width
9in
Item Weight
108.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Series Volume Number
5
Lc Classification Number
Qh106
Reviews
"As a physical object, it is one of beauty... As an act of sustained editorial ingenuity... it is impeccable... As a work of interdisciplinary research, it is simply outstanding... [This work] can scarcely be praised too highly." Sir John A. Macdonald Prize Jury, "One of Canada's 'fundamental documents' - a 335-year-old, lavishly illustrated manuscript describing the First Nations, wildlife and geography of the country at the dawn of European settlement." Randy Boswell, The Montreal Gazette, " The Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas is a treasure trove for a host of readers with wide-ranging interests in the history, culture, and natural history of Canada, or in the makeup of the scientific field in France at the time. The lively style for which François-Marc Gagnon is well known to French readers as well as the volume's mature and insightful scholarship make this a captivating, rich, and profoundly knowledgeable text." Laurier Lacroix, département d'histoire de l'art, Université du Québec à Montréal, "The Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas is a treasure trove for a host of readers with wide-ranging interests in the history, culture, and natural history of Canada, or in the makeup of the scientific field in France at the time. The lively style for which François-Marc Gagnon is well known to French readers as well as the volume's mature and insightful scholarship make this a captivating, rich, and profoundly knowledgeable text." Laurier Lacroix, département d'histoire de l'art, Université du Québec à Montréal
Copyright Date
2011
Target Audience
College Audience
Topic
Canada / General, Canadian, Regional
Dewey Decimal
971.004/9700222
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Nature, Art, History
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