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SUMMARY:Students\, tourists and farmers: the publics of botanic gardens in
  the 18th century - Elena Romero-Passerin (University of St Andrews)
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CONTACT:Laura Brassington
DESCRIPTION:This talk will look at the visitors of publicly funded botanic
  gardens in Edinburgh\, Florence and Pisa in the second half of the 18th c
 entury. Taken together\, those three cities hosted five publicly funded bo
 tanic gardens. Botanic gardens were originally created to teach botany to 
 university students. However\, by the 18th century\, the audience for bota
 nic gardens in general had diversified. This paper will show the diversity
  of the publics of botanic gardens. Botany had become a popular hobby for 
 the elite. Botanic gardens were recognised as important attractions for to
 urists going on their Grand Tour in Italy. Even the lower classes of socie
 ty were now invited to wander around the gardens.\n\nOnly two of the garde
 ns studied here were university gardens\, two were managed by learned soci
 eties\, and the last one belonged to a museum of natural history. Each of 
 them had different target audiences and different rules about access. This
  paper will analyse the rules and testimonies about visitors of the garden
 s to understand what people wanted when they visited a botanic garden as w
 ell as what the institutions themselves wanted from their audience. Ultima
 tely it will argue that the gardens' relationship to the public was an imp
 ortant part of what defines them as 'spaces of knowledge'.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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