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​​Gardens and the scientific revolution

​​Gardens and the scientific revolution

FromHistory Extra podcast


​​Gardens and the scientific revolution

FromHistory Extra podcast

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Length:
41 minutes
Released:
Mar 9, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Clare Hickman explores how gardens were used as places of scientific experimentation in the 18th and 19th centuries During the scientific revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries, gardens were not only used for leisure and pleasure. Clare Hickman explains to Dave Musgrove how they also became places of scientific experimentation. (Ad) Clare Hickman is the author of The Doctor’s Garden: Medicine, Science and Horticulture in Britain (Yale University Press, 2022). Buy it now from Amazon:https://www.amazon.co.uk/Doctors-Garden-Medicine-Science-Horticulture/dp/0300236107/?tag=bbchistory045-21&ascsubtag=historyextra-social-histboty See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Released:
Mar 9, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

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