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Utopian Gardens

Professor Jim Endersby · Gresham College

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About

This lecture will begin with Bacon’s imagined garden, then consider the long-term promise of the experimental or scientific garden, which would eventually lead to today’s biotechnologies.

Lectures

  1. Experimental Gardens from Francis Bacon to Today 2019-10-07 · YouTube
  2. Gardens of Empire: The Role of Kew and Colonial Botanic Gardens 2019-12-02 · YouTube
  3. Making New Plants: A History 2020-02-10 · YouTube
  4. Good Gardeners of Planet Earth? The Vision of Silent Running (1972) 2020-03-23 · YouTube

Credits and licence

Institution
Gresham College
Speaker
Professor Jim Endersby
Year
2019
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Earth and environment, History
Source
Gresham College
Licence
Educational use (Gresham College's terms), as Gresham College states it. Gresham College's terms
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