The Doctor's Garden Medicine, Science, and Horticulture in Britain

• Autor principal: Hickman, Clare (auth)
• Formato: Recurso Eletrônico Capítulo de Livro
• Idioma: inglês
• Publicado em: Yale University Press 2021
• Assuntos: Medicine; Society & social sciences; Horticulture; Medicine; science; horticulture
• Acesso em linha: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

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 scient...