American Eden David Hosack, botany, and medicine in the garden of the early republic
"One goal drove Hosack above all others: to build the Republic's first botanical garden. Despite innumerable obstacles and near-constant resistance, Hosack triumphed when his Elgin Botanic Garden at last crowned twenty acres of Manhattan farmland by 1810. "Where others saw real estate and power, Hos...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Liveright Publishing Corporation,
[2018]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | "One goal drove Hosack above all others: to build the Republic's first botanical garden. Despite innumerable obstacles and near-constant resistance, Hosack triumphed when his Elgin Botanic Garden at last crowned twenty acres of Manhattan farmland by 1810. "Where others saw real estate and power, Hosack saw the landscape as a pharmacopoeia able to bring medicine into the modern age" (Eric W. Sanderson, author of Mannahatta). What remains today of America's first botanical garden lies in the heart of midtown, buried beneath Rockefeller Center. Whether collecting specimens along the banks of the Hudson River, lecturing before a class of rapt medical students, or breaking the fever of a young Philip Hamilton, David Hosack was an American visionary who has been too long forgotten. Alongside other towering figures of the post-Revolutionary generation, he took the reins of a nation. In unearthing the dramatic story of his life, Johnson offers a lush depiction of the man who gave a new voice to the powers and perils of nature"-- |
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| Physical Description: | x, 461 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color map ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-436) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781631494192 1631494198 |
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