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The landscape, as a cultural history theme or as a theme of the history of representations, belongs to a certain “sensory anthropology”, which is a complex endeavour of signification, developed by people on nature and on the world in which they live. The developments of the definition of the landscape in its interpretive alignments contain a variety of themes delivered to a group of readings. Thus, the first group focuses on the history of the knowledge of nature and of the surrounding environment as an epistemologically outlined itinerary. A second alignment is represented by the philosophical-ethical perspective on nature from the 18th century, the third group is centred on the literary thematic of nature. The fourth group focuses on the physiocratic, fruitful approaches on nature, dominated by the economic thought and practices of the 18th century and the fifth direction is represented by the monographic direction.
