Gardens and the scientific revolution
Clare Hickman explores how gardens were used as places of scientific experimentation in the 18th and 19th centuries

Published: March 9, 2022 at 12:13 pm
Clare Hickman explains to Dave Musgrove how they also became places of scientific experimentation.
Clare Hickman is the author of The Doctor’s Garden: Medicine, Science and Horticulture in Britain (Yale University Press, 2022)
Authors

Dr David MusgroveContent director, HistoryExtra.com

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