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.
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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
David Musgrove is content director of the HistoryExtra.com website and podcast, plus its sister print magazines BBC History Magazine and BBC History Revealed. He has a PhD in medieval landscape archaeology and is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
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