William Michael Barton is a Post Doctoral Researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute für Neulateinische Studien, Austria.

"Barton’s careful documentation of the Neo-Latin scientific, artistic, and theological traditions which arose in the 15th-18th centuries as the first systematic attempts to fill in the gaps in our mountain knowledge support his thesis that those same texts were instrumental in promoting a new, positive sense of the mountain aesthetic. This book [provides] an opportunity to develop and refine personal environmental paradigms and sensitivities by considering landscape texts from a philological perspective, and recommend it for this purpose as well."- David G. Smith, San Francisco State University

• Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsList of AbbreviationsAcknowledgementsNote on Neo-Latin TextsIntroduction1. The Mountain in Latin: Literary HeritageJosias Simmler’s De Alpibus Commentarius (1574)The Mountain in Classical LiteratureThe Mountain in Classical Literature: Concluding RemarksThe Mountains of the BibleThe Mountains of the Bible: Concluding Remarks2. Gaeographia, Prospectus, Pictura Gessner Frames the MountainThe Mountain in Chorography Geography’s Rebirth in GermaniaProspectus and the Mountain in TextEarly Landscape Art and the MountainLatin and the Rise of the Landscape GenreGeography and Landscape Art come togetherPliny Concludes: A View from Tuscany3. Theologia et Philosophia NaturalisThe Disciplines and their RelationshipNatural Philosophy, Mountains of the Mind and AestheticsThe Mountains and their Origins—l’état de question in 1561Mountains in Genesis and Berhardus VareniusA Smooth Primaeval Earth—Josephus Blancanus Aesthetics of Nature in Theology: Commentaries on GenesisThe ‘Burnet Controversy’ and Mountain Aesthetics in Natural PhilosophyThe ‘World Makers’, John Woodward and Dissertationes de MontibusScheuchzer’s Itinera Alpina and the Changed Mountain Aesthetic4. Aesthetics of Nature: The Case of the Mountain Mentality ChangeThe Appreciation of Nature in Modern Philosophical Aesthetics—An Overview Current Positions in the Aesthetics of NatureThe Natural Environmental ModelThe Case of the Mountain Mentality ChangeMethodological ConsiderationsTheism and Positive AestheticsThe Role of Natural Science in Aesthetic Appreciation of NatureLandscape and the Aesthetic Appreciation of NatureSteno and Leonardo: the Tuscan HillsConclusionsAppendixAnnotated BibliographyPreambleAnnotated ListBibliographyIndex

William Michael Barton is a Post Doctoral Researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute für Neulateinische Studien, Austria.

"Barton’s careful documentation of the Neo-Latin scientific, artistic, and theological traditions which arose in the 15th-18th centuries as the first systematic attempts to fill in the gaps in our mountain knowledge support his thesis that those same texts were instrumental in promoting a new, positive sense of the mountain aesthetic. This book [provides] an opportunity to develop and refine personal environmental paradigms and sensitivities by considering landscape texts from a philological perspective, and recommend it for this purpose as well."- David G. Smith, San Francisco State University

• Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsList of AbbreviationsAcknowledgementsNote on Neo-Latin TextsIntroduction1. The Mountain in Latin: Literary HeritageJosias Simmler’s De Alpibus Commentarius (1574)The Mountain in Classical LiteratureThe Mountain in Classical Literature: Concluding RemarksThe Mountains of the BibleThe Mountains of the Bible: Concluding Remarks2. Gaeographia, Prospectus, Pictura Gessner Frames the MountainThe Mountain in Chorography Geography’s Rebirth in GermaniaProspectus and the Mountain in TextEarly Landscape Art and the MountainLatin and the Rise of the Landscape GenreGeography and Landscape Art come togetherPliny Concludes: A View from Tuscany3. Theologia et Philosophia NaturalisThe Disciplines and their RelationshipNatural Philosophy, Mountains of the Mind and AestheticsThe Mountains and their Origins—l’état de question in 1561Mountains in Genesis and Berhardus VareniusA Smooth Primaeval Earth—Josephus Blancanus Aesthetics of Nature in Theology: Commentaries on GenesisThe ‘Burnet Controversy’ and Mountain Aesthetics in Natural PhilosophyThe ‘World Makers’, John Woodward and Dissertationes de MontibusScheuchzer’s Itinera Alpina and the Changed Mountain Aesthetic4. Aesthetics of Nature: The Case of the Mountain Mentality ChangeThe Appreciation of Nature in Modern Philosophical Aesthetics—An Overview Current Positions in the Aesthetics of NatureThe Natural Environmental ModelThe Case of the Mountain Mentality ChangeMethodological ConsiderationsTheism and Positive AestheticsThe Role of Natural Science in Aesthetic Appreciation of NatureLandscape and the Aesthetic Appreciation of NatureSteno and Leonardo: the Tuscan HillsConclusionsAppendixAnnotated BibliographyPreambleAnnotated ListBibliographyIndex

William Michael Barton is a Post Doctoral Researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute für Neulateinische Studien, Austria.

"Barton’s careful documentation of the Neo-Latin scientific, artistic, and theological traditions which arose in the 15th-18th centuries as the first systematic attempts to fill in the gaps in our mountain knowledge support his thesis that those same texts were instrumental in promoting a new, positive sense of the mountain aesthetic. This book [provides] an opportunity to develop and refine personal environmental paradigms and sensitivities by considering landscape texts from a philological perspective, and recommend it for this purpose as well."- David G. Smith, San Francisco State University

• Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsList of AbbreviationsAcknowledgementsNote on Neo-Latin TextsIntroduction1. The Mountain in Latin: Literary HeritageJosias Simmler’s De Alpibus Commentarius (1574)The Mountain in Classical LiteratureThe Mountain in Classical Literature: Concluding RemarksThe Mountains of the BibleThe Mountains of the Bible: Concluding Remarks2. Gaeographia, Prospectus, Pictura Gessner Frames the MountainThe Mountain in Chorography Geography’s Rebirth in GermaniaProspectus and the Mountain in TextEarly Landscape Art and the MountainLatin and the Rise of the Landscape GenreGeography and Landscape Art come togetherPliny Concludes: A View from Tuscany3. Theologia et Philosophia NaturalisThe Disciplines and their RelationshipNatural Philosophy, Mountains of the Mind and AestheticsThe Mountains and their Origins—l’état de question in 1561Mountains in Genesis and Berhardus VareniusA Smooth Primaeval Earth—Josephus Blancanus Aesthetics of Nature in Theology: Commentaries on GenesisThe ‘Burnet Controversy’ and Mountain Aesthetics in Natural PhilosophyThe ‘World Makers’, John Woodward and Dissertationes de MontibusScheuchzer’s Itinera Alpina and the Changed Mountain Aesthetic4. Aesthetics of Nature: The Case of the Mountain Mentality ChangeThe Appreciation of Nature in Modern Philosophical Aesthetics—An Overview Current Positions in the Aesthetics of NatureThe Natural Environmental ModelThe Case of the Mountain Mentality ChangeMethodological ConsiderationsTheism and Positive AestheticsThe Role of Natural Science in Aesthetic Appreciation of NatureLandscape and the Aesthetic Appreciation of NatureSteno and Leonardo: the Tuscan HillsConclusionsAppendixAnnotated BibliographyPreambleAnnotated ListBibliographyIndex