Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on Plant Names and Identification
- 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 Among 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
- Garden and Landscape History
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on Plant Names and Identification
- 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 Among 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
- Garden and Landscape History
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- Erasmus Darwin's GardensMedicine, Agriculture and the Sciences in the Eighteenth Century, pp. 315 - 342Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2021