Cultivating science and planting beauty: The spaces of display in Cambridge's botanical gardens

Interdisciplinary Science Reviews

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 42-57

  Johnson, Nuala C ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTANICAL GARDENS; CAMBRIDGE; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY; SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE;

SOCIAL SCIENCES;

EID: 33745663765     PISSN: 03080188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/030801806X84192     Document Type: Review

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