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The Doctor's Garden - Medicine, Science, and Horticulture in Britain (Hardcover)
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The Doctor's Garden - Medicine, Science, and Horticulture in Britain (Hardcover)
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A richly illustrated exploration of how late Georgian gardens
associated with medical practitioners advanced science, education,
and agricultural experimentation As Britain grew into an
ever-expanding empire during the late eighteenth and early
nineteenth centuries, new and exotic botanical specimens began to
arrive within the nation's public and private spaces. Gardens
became sites not just of leisure, sport, and aesthetic enjoyment,
but also of scientific inquiry and knowledge dissemination. Medical
practitioners used their botanical training to capitalize on the
growing fashion for botanical collecting and agricultural
experimentation in institutional, semipublic, and private gardens
across Britain. This book highlights the role of these medical
practitioners in the changing use of gardens in the late Georgian
period, marked by a fluidity among the ideas of farm, laboratory,
museum, and garden. Placing these activities within a wider
framework of fashionable, scientific, and economic interests of the
time, historian Clare Hickman argues that gardens shifted from
predominately static places of enjoyment to key gathering places
for improvement, knowledge sharing, and scientific exploration.
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