​​Gardens and the scientific revolution

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.

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