Raphaële Garrod, Ph.D. (2011), Trinity College, Cambridge, is research associate at Cambridge and incoming associate professor of early modern French at the University of Oxford. She has published on early modern French and neo-Latin intellectual history and literature.Paul J. Smith, Ph.D. (1985), Leiden University, is professor of French literature at that University. He has published widely on early modern French literature, its reception in the Netherlands, and early modern natural history.

• AcknowledgementsFigures and TablesNotes on the EditorsNotes on the Contributors1 Introduction. Knowledge and Literature: The Natural-Historical Description as Epistemic Genre?Raphaële Garrod2 Deux recueils d’illustrations ornithologiques : les Icones avium (1555 et 1560) de Conrad Gessner et les Portraits d’oyseaux (1557) de Pierre BelonPaul J. Smith 3 Feeling Divine Nature: Natural History, Emotions and Bernard Palissy’s Knowledge Practice Susan Broomhall4 L’idée d’un oiseau : l’oiseau de paradis ou la fabrication d’une merveille (XVIe et XVIIe siècles)Arlette Fruet5 Du nouveau sur la licorne : le rôle des cabinets de curiosités dans l’avancée des savoirsMyriam Marrache-Gouraud6 The Natural-Historical Rejuvenation of Emblematics: The Moral Pedagogy of Nicolas Caussin’s Polyhistor SymbolicusRaphaële Garrod7 Natural History and Divertissement: J.B. Faultrier’s Traitté general des oyseaux (1660)Isabelle Charmantier8 At the Borders of the Metropolis: Writing the Natural History of Paris in the Eighteenth CenturyStéphane Van Damme9 Rewriting Bacon’s Natural History: Pierre Amboise’s Translation of Sylva SylvarumDana Jalobeanu10 Bacon, Experimental Philosophy and French Enlightenment Natural HistoryPeter R. Anstey11 La permanence des savoirs antiques dans l’histoire naturelle du second XVIIIe siècleStéphane Schmitt12 Empiricism and Sensibility in the Australian Journal of Théodore Leschenault de La Tour (1800-1803)Paul GibbardIndex Nominum

"This volume [...] beautifully illustrates literary approaches to the early modern French histoire naturelle."Dorit Brixius, German Historical Institute in Paris, in ISIS 111.2“A timely collection on the intersection of literature and natural history, especially concerning plants and birds.” Dorothea Heitsch, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 73, No. 1 (Spring 2020), pp. 360–361.