The Chawton House Garden Festival offers refreshing tours of their gardens. They highlight A Curious Herbal, a groundbreaking book about plants in the eighteenth century, written by a lady botanist in an era where women were discouraged from studying science.
Category: Biology
Science Variations 3: Novels with Regency and Victorian Science
Some fun novels of science in the Regency, and two novels of the Industrial Revolution: North and South, and a variation: Nowhere but North.
Faith and Science: Gilbert White, Parson-Naturalist of Selborne
Parson-Naturalists like Gilbert White combined their love of God and his world, and helped us better understand birds, ecology, and much more.
Faith and Science: William Paley and Natural Theology
In Jane Austen's England, "natural theology" used science to support Christian faith.