Gardens and the scientific revolution
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Gardening in the Eighteenth Century
Scientific gardens from the eighteenth and 19 centuries have disappeared. Clare Witherswell's book, The doctor's garden, medicine, science and horticulture in britain is published now by yale university press. She says we can connect with those eighteenth century doctors who are measuring the weather each day.
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