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This quantity explores difficulties within the historical past of technological know-how on the intersection of existence sciences and agriculture, from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Taking a comparative nationwide point of view, the ebook examines agricultural practices in a extensive feel, together with the practices and disciplines dedicated to land administration, forestry, soil technology, and the development and administration of plants and farm animals. The existence sciences thought of contain genetics, microbiology, ecology, entomology, forestry, and care for US, ecu, Russian, eastern, Indonesian, chinese language contexts. The publication indicates that the research of the border sector of existence sciences and agriculture increases many fascinating questions on how technology develops. particularly it demanding situations one to reconsider and take heavily the intimate connection among medical improvement and the sensible pursuits of dealing with and enhancing – maybe even recreating – the residing global to serve human ends. with no shut awareness to this sector it's not attainable to appreciate the emergence of latest disciplines and transformation of previous disciplines, to guage the function and influence of such significant figures of technology as Humboldt and Mendel, or to understand how a lot of the heritage of recent biology has been pushed by means of nationwide pursuits and imperialist growth in festival with rival nations.

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22 In this regard, France was a testing ground that allowed Young to apply the technique of mapping to all kinds of agricultural phenomena. ”23 The result of this collective research, Young believed, would be of true practical value. ”24 Beyond the striking iconic similarity of Young’s and Candolle’s map, both enterprises were conceptually linked in multiple ways. Candolle’s argument for using a map was exactly the same as that of Young. Both understood their map as a tool that allowed them to mobilize and coordinate their heterogeneous networks of observers and contributors.

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