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​​Gardens and the scientific revolution

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Clare Hickman explores how gardens were used as places of scientific experimentation in the 18th and 19th centuries During the scientific revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries, gardens were not only used for leisure and pleasure. Clare Hickman explains to Dave Musgrove how they also became places of scientific experimentation. (Ad) Clare Hickman is the author of The Doctor’s Garden: Medicine, Science and Horticulture in Britain (Yale University Press, 2022). Buy it now from Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Doctors-Garden-Medicine-Science-Horticulture/dp/0300236107/?tag=bbchistory045-21&ascsubtag=historyextra-social-histboty Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine, Britain's best-selling history magazine.

1:27.4

I'm Ellie Corthorne. We don't talk about gardening very much on this podcast. So today we're going to rectify that as Dr. Claire Hickman dishes the dirt on why gardens were such an integral part of the scientific revolution of the late 18th century. Putting the questions to Claire

1:46.2

was David Mersbroke. Today I am talking to Dr. Claire Hickman, who is author of The Doctor's Garden,

1:53.9

Medicine Science and Horticulture in Britain. So Claire, welcome. Thank you very much for joining us. How are you?

2:00.7

I'm good. Thank you. Thank you for having me. That's a pleasure. So we're talking about

2:04.4

gardens from the later 18th century and early 19th century now. For some of our listeners,

2:11.5

that might immediately bring to mind thoughts of sort of Jane Austenesque people parading round, lovely partair type gardens, formal

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