The doctor's garden medicine, science, and horticulture in Britain
As Britain grew into an ever-expanding empire during the late 18th and early 19th 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...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press
[2021]
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| Colección: | Yale scholarship online.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009719834106719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Quick Guide to the Key Medical Practitioners and Their Gardens
- INTRODUCTION Illuminating the Doctor's Garden
- ONE Educating the Senses: The Botanic Garden as a Teaching and Research Center
- TWO Creating a Perpetual Spring: Tracing Private Botanic Collectors and Their Networks
- THREE For "Curiosity and Instruction": Visiting the Botanic Garden
- FOUR "Hints or Directions": Reading the Doctor's Garden
- FIVE For Dulce and Utile: The Garden as Both Ornament and Farm
- SIX This "Terrestrial Elysium": Sociability and the Garden
- EPILOGUE The Stories We Tell: Bridging the Gap between Research and Practice
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index.
