{"content":[{"text":"Professor Rosborough • The Biography of Your Garden • Fromm • Spring 2021 \n rob@manjushrimediation.pro • 415.673.5081","bbox":{"left":0.118049,"top":0.045884,"width":0.624166,"height":0.03698099999999999}},{"text":"Class 1: The Ancient Mediterranean","bbox":{"left":0.118049,"top":0.101338,"width":0.283748,"height":0.018496}},{"text":"1)","bbox":{"left":0.14746,"top":0.138308,"width":0.015883000000000008,"height":0.018496000000000012}},{"text":"Why is there a fig in my garden? \n a. On the practical origins of our oldest garden plants, starting with food \n What do you call that? A very brief primer on plant names \n Introduction: Structure and subjects of class \n a. Structure: Chronological and geographical \n b. Subjects: \n i. Socioeconomic, political and scientific history behind plants in our \n gardens \n ii. Development of our understanding of plants \n iii. Stories of exploration and discovery \n iv. Meaning we ascribe to plants: myth, lore, art \n The many uses of plants and the paths to our gardens \n Brief observations on the origin of gardens \n A sampling of ancient plants in our gardens \n Do plants have souls? The beginnings of botany \n a. Theophrastus \n b. Pliny \n c. Dioscorides \n More ancient plants","bbox":{"left":0.176872,"top":0.138308,"width":0.6427809999999999,"height":0.351526}},{"text":"2) \n 3)","bbox":{"left":0.14746,"top":0.175278,"width":0.015883000000000008,"height":0.036980999999999986}},{"text":"4) \n 5) \n 6) \n 7)","bbox":{"left":0.14746,"top":0.341944,"width":0.015883000000000008,"height":0.07395099999999999}},{"text":"8)","bbox":{"left":0.14746,"top":0.471338,"width":0.015883000000000008,"height":0.018496000000000012}},{"text":"Suggested Reading:","bbox":{"left":0.118049,"top":0.508308,"width":0.15563199999999994,"height":0.018495999999999957}},{"text":"•","bbox":{"left":0.14746,"top":0.54538,"width":0.009019,"height":0.018561999999999967}},{"text":"Noel Kingsbury, Garden Flora: The Natural and Cultural History of the Plants in Your \n Garden, Timber Press (2016) \n Anna Pavord, The Naming of Names: The Search for Order in the World of Plants, \n Bloomsbury (2005) \n Duane Isely, One Hundred and One Botanists, Iowa State University Press (1994) \n Gavin Hardy and Laurence Totelin, Ancient Botany, Routledge (2015) \n Ippolito Pizzetti and Henry Cocker, Flowers: A Guide for Your Garden, Harry N. Abrams, \n Inc. (1975)","bbox":{"left":0.176872,"top":0.546187,"width":0.6893239999999999,"height":0.151223}},{"text":"•","bbox":{"left":0.14746,"top":0.582956,"width":0.009019,"height":0.018561999999999967}},{"text":"• \n • \n •","bbox":{"left":0.14746,"top":0.620835,"width":0.009019,"height":0.0573499999999999}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}