<i>Floræs Paradise</i>: Hugh Platt and the Economy of Early Modern Gardening

Mukherjee, Ayesha

doi:10.1080/0268117x.2010.10555637

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“…Food and eating were also symbolically important in the construction of family norms: a husband and wife eating apart, for example, might be taken as evidence of domestic strife. From a more literary perspective, Mukherjee describes the horticultural writing of Hugh Platt (1552–1608), which was influenced by the imperative to turn ‘penurie into plenty’ during and after the hard 1590s. Platt emphasized the importance of experience and labour in improving gardening techniques, rather than the more scholastic approach of many contemporaries.…”

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“…Platt's recycling practices were self‐conscious about these contradictions created by their interaction with markets and trades. His application of recycling methods in his own market gardening trade or his extended analysis of recycling soap‐ash and problems with Dutch soap‐boilers revealed in specific experiments and measures a series of connected effects on socioeconomic practice (Platt, Soyle 50; Mukherjee, “ Floraes Paradise ”). How could one balance ecological and communal concerns with the growing complexity of market forces?…”

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“Manured with the Starres”: Recovering an Early Modern Discourse of Sustainability

Mukherjee

2014

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The assumption that sustainability is a modern invention appears frequently, in nuanced forms, across historical and literary investigations of ecological change, resource management, and waste in the early modern period. What remains under‐investigated is the period's ethical and theoretical understandings of these issues as debates, which deployed complex oppositional rhetorical strategies and literary forms that underpinned the organization of knowledge and pragmatic measures. Sir Hugh Platt's experimental program of resource management carried out in a context of dearth in the 1580s and 1590s provides an important means for recovering an early modern discourse of sustainability in its own terms. The article uses this case study to demonstrate how the specificities of sustainable practices and their conceptual articulation can be recovered, and how such a focused and historicized approach raises key questions about the debating of ecological ethics in societies across time.

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Bacon’s Apples: A Case Study in Baconian Experimentation

Jalobeanu

2016

Francis Bacon on Motion and Power

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This paper investigates a specific case of Baconian experimentation, that is, a series of controlled experimental trials he undertook to study the processes of maturation and putrefaction of apples when they were placed under very different circumstances and conditions. The results of these trials were repeatedly used by Francis Bacon in his writings to illustrate the motions of spirits enclosed in matter. In this paper, I reconstruct some of Bacon's experiments with apples from his recurrent references, as found in the Historia vitae et mortis, De vijs mortis, Novum organum and Sylva Sylvarum. I argue that they shed important light on three problematic aspects in Baconian scholarship. Firstly, they offer a paradigmatic situation in which we can explore Bacon's creative and critical handling of sources. Secondly, they show Bacon at work as an experimenter who carefully and accurately observed, recorded and imagined interesting experimental setups and variations of experimental parameters, while displaying an interest in experimental methodology and the limits of experimental procedure. Finally, Bacon's apples are very good examples of the multiple uses and functions experiments play in his natural and experimental histories.

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Floræs Paradise: Hugh Platt and the Economy of Early Modern Gardening

Cited by 3 publications

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Review of periodical literature published in 2010

Review of periodical literature published in 2010

“Manured with the Starres”: Recovering an Early Modern Discourse of Sustainability

Bacon’s Apples: A Case Study in Baconian Experimentation

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