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​​Gardens and the scientific revolution

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What Are Botanic Gardens?

These are places where the plants are arranged in relation to each other. They're designed to be used as a kind of teaching resources, mainly by medical students. So they have a smaller botanic thing that relates to other things they're doing. And sothe larger botanic gardens you mentioned al ways, their pedigree and theya were commonplace inthe later eighteenth century. But thei're longer pedigree. It's really a kind of the herb or garden, a kind of physic garden that you might have had. Same with monasteries, and which were kind of running a sort of part naw hospitals. My really early period.

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