Garden as laboratory in the work of John Evelyn : Baconian intentions and the hermetic legacy
Towards the end of the 1650s, John Evelyn (1620-1706) composed a book on gardening, the ‘Elysium Britannicum: or the Royal Gardens’, transcribing a draft into fair copy between 1660 and 1663. The book was never finished, but a good part of the manuscript survives. He composed the work in three books...
Main Author: | Odgers, Juliet |
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Other Authors: | Hart, Vaughan ; Wilson Jones, Mark |
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University of Bath
2017
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Online Access: | https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.715302 |
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