The Doctor's Garden Medicine, Science, and Horticulture in Britain
A richly illustrated exploration of how late Georgian gardens associated with medical practitioners advanced science, education, and agricultural experimentation As Britain grew into an ever-expanding empire during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, new and exotic botanical specimen...
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| Format | eBook |
| Language | English |
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Yale University Press
26.10.2021
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| Online Access | Get full text |
| ISBN | 9780300236101 0300236107 |
| DOI | 10.2307/j.ctv1z9n1b3 |
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| Summary: | A richly illustrated exploration of how late Georgian
gardens associated with medical practitioners advanced science,
education, and agricultural experimentation As Britain
grew into an ever-expanding empire during the late eighteenth and
early nineteenth centuries, new and exotic botanical specimens
began to arrive within the nation's public and private spaces.
Gardens became sites not just of leisure, sport, and aesthetic
enjoyment, but also of scientific inquiry and knowledge
dissemination. Medical practitioners used their botanical training
to capitalize on the growing fashion for botanical collecting and
agricultural experimentation in institutional, semipublic, and
private gardens across Britain. This book highlights the role of
these medical practitioners in the changing use of gardens in the
late Georgian period, marked by a fluidity among the ideas of farm,
laboratory, museum, and garden. Placing these activities within a
wider framework of fashionable, scientific, and economic interests
of the time, historian Clare Hickman argues that gardens shifted
from predominately static places of enjoyment to key gathering
places for improvement, knowledge sharing, and scientific
exploration. |
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| ISBN: | 9780300236101 0300236107 |
| DOI: | 10.2307/j.ctv1z9n1b3 |