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Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas
Louis Nicolas
Réal Ouellet
其他書名
The Natural History of the New World, Histoire Naturelle Des Indes Occidentales
出版
McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
, 2011
主題
Art / History / General
Art / Canadian
History / General
History / Canada / General
History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
Nature / General
Nature / Regional
Science / Life Sciences / Zoology / General
ISBN
0773538763
9780773538764
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=r8FLnh8FWTgC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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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 encyclopaedic. 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.