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Atlas and Hercules in the garden : scientific culture and literary imagination at the Villa Aldobrandini at Frascati
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2015-01-01)This essay explores the interplay in early modern Roman gardens between the iconography of instruments and fountains and scientific culture, especially astronomy. Examining the sundials that adorned the garden at the Villa Aldobrandini at Frascati, it ...