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Is fake news killing fictive art?
Parafictional artists create projects where the imaginary interacts with real life. But the growth of so-called ‘fake news’ is providing a new challenge.
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Titans in the landscape
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A bad atmosphere in the Balkans
The citizens of Belgrade, one of the most polluted cities in Europe, are finally pushing back against the polluters, whose activities they’ve been encouraged to accept.
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The healing power of the physic garden
Having experienced the healing power of plants and gardens, Iona Glen goes in search of present-day “physic gardens” and their origins in history.
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Curiosities of nature and art in husbandry and gardening. Containing several new experiments in the Improvement of Land, Trees, Fruits, &c. And also nice and useful Observations relating to the Vegetation and Propagation of Plants; with choice Secrets to make Plants, Flowers and Fruits larger, more beautiful, and to ripen earlier than usual. With several copper cuts.
Vallemont, abbé de (Pierre Le Lorrain), 1649-1721.Date: 1707- Books
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Pharmaco-Botanologia: or, An Alphabetical and Classical dissertation on all the British Indigenous and Garden Plants of the New London Dispensatory. In which Their Genera, Species, Characteristick and Distinctive Notes are Methodically described; the Botanical Terms of art explained; their Virtues, Uses, and Shop-Preparations declared. With many Curious and Useful Remarks from proper Observation. By Patrick Blair, M.D. of Boston in Lincolnshire, and Fellow of the Royal Society.
Blair, Patrick, -1728.Date: MDCCXXIII-M.DCC.XXVIII [1723-1728]- Books
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The artificial gardiner: being, a discovery of a new invention for the sudden growth of all sorts of trees and plants. Whereby Gardens may be stock'd with Variety of Plants and Fruit-Trees: And Forrests rais'd upon the most Barren Grounds in a very short Time. Also how to Produce Flowers and Fruits in the midst of Winter. The whole confirm'd by Experiments. Translated from the original High-Dutch, of George Andreas Agricola, of Ratisbone. M. D. To which are added, Remarks upon this new art of vegetation. By a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Date: 1717 [1716]- Archives and manuscripts
Statistics of Heredity in Animals
Date: 1896-1897Reference: GALTON/2/5/3/4Part of: Galton Papers- Books
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British curiosities in art and nature; giving an account of rarities both antient and modern, viz. Monuments, Monasteries, Priories, Frieries, Nunneries, Colleges, Hospitals, Walls, Roman Camps, Garrisons, Highways, Coins, Altars, Urns, Pavements of Mosaic Work, Temples, Churches, Bridges, Kings Palaces, Noblemens Seats, Paintings, Gardens, Statues, Fountains, Rivers, Lakes, Abysses, Caverns, Rocks, Hills, Plants, Flowers, Birds, Beasts, Fish, Shells, Learning and Learned Men, unusual Customs of Places, with whatever else is worthy observing. Likewise an account of the posts, markets, and fair-towns. To which is added, A very Useful Scheme, containing a brief Account of the State of each County in England, at one View, curiously engraved, and printed on a Sheet to fold up or put in a Frame.
Date: MDCC.XXVIII. [1728]