Erasmus Darwin's Gardens - Medicine, Agriculture and the Sciences in the Eighteenth Century

This first full study of Erasmus Darwin's gardening, horticulture and agriculture shows he was as keen a nature enthusiast as his grandson Charles, and demonstrates the ways in which his landscape experiences transformed his understanding of nature.

List of contents

Introduction

1. Lichfield and Derby gardens
2. Medicinal plants and their places
3. Agricultural improvement: enclosure and the application of science and technology
4. Vegetable physiology, technology and agriculture
5. Vegetable pathology and medicine
6. Amongst the animals
7. Animal diseases
8. "Eating of the tree of knowledge": forestry, arboriculture and medicine
9. Trees in the economy of nature

Conclusion

Select Bibliography
Index

About the author

PAUL ELLIOTT is Professor of Modern History at the University of Derby.

Product details

• Authors: Paul A Elliott
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2025
• EAN: 9781837652532
• ISBN: 978-1-83765-253-2
• No. of pages: 366
• Dimensions: 168 mm x 236 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 622 g
• Illustrations: 12 line, 13 colour and 38 b/w illus.
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918