
Gardens and the scientific revolution
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Is This a Man's World?
Ando'briony mc dell has written a book about women in the eighteenth century and their management of estates. But it's just very hard to find out about the women, she says. We don't get many names, an we don't know what these women are doing. The men are busy working. So clearly, some one it's manageing the day to day business of places er. In the case of the botanic gardens in edinburgh,. there is a woman who's an artist who does, like beautiful botanical drawings, and is part of theBotanic garden there. And you're like, wha. You're probably not doing this because you're
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