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List of agronomists

Early civilisations

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Orient

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  • Mozes, 1600 BC

Greece

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According to Varro over fifty authors, wrote about agriculture, among them:

  • Democritus
  • Xenophon (c. 430 – 354 BC) write Oeconomicus, a Socratic dialogue principally about household management and agriculture.
  • Aristotle
  • Theophrastus
  • Hesiod, writer on Husbandry, in the tent century preceding our era. Wrote the poem Works and Days.'
  • Mago the Carthaginian
  • Herodotus and Diodorus Siculus, wrote on the history and geography of Egypt, lived in the 6th and 5th century BC.

Roman Empire

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Middle Ages

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Early modern period

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Italy

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  • Pietro de' Crescenzi (c. 1230/35 – c. 1320), Italy, known from "Le vinti giornate dell'agricultura, et de' piaceri della villa", (re)published with famous 16th century illustrations in 1580.[1]
  • Paganino Bonafede from Bolognese wrote the didactic essay on agriculture, entitled Il Tesoro de' Rustici, around 1350-60 (Sereni, 1997)
  • Michelangelo Tanaglia (1437-1512) from Neaples (Sereni, 1997), wrote De Re Agraria [1]
  • Luigi Alamanni (1495-1556) (Sereni, 1997)
  • Agostino Gallo (1499–1570) was an Italian agronomist from Venice
  • Camillo Tarello (16th century), Venice, wrote Ricordo d'agricoltura di M. Camillo Tarello 1567/1773 (google books), and "patented in Venice an innovative method of cultivation based on crop rotation..." (Mola, 2003)
    • "... Camillo Tarello, who urged the adoption of such a system in agriculture in 1566, before the senate of Venice, it was little understood elsewhere. Tarello was far in advance of his time and ..." (Popular Science, Nov. 1908, p. 407)
  • Il podere del Tansillo (1510-1568) (Sereni, 1997)
  • Francesco Tatti da Sansovino (1521–1586) was a versatile Italian scholar and man of letters, also known as a publisher
  • Giovan Vettorio Soderini (1526–1596) was an Italian agronomist.
  • Bernardo Davanzati (1529–1606) Italian agronomist, economist and translator.
  • Giambattista della Porta (c. 1535–1615)[1]
  • Vincenzo Tanara (died 1667), Italian agronomist and gastronome.
Sources
  • Emilio Sereni. History of the Italian Agricultural Landscape, 1997, p. xxxiii
  • Luca Molà (2003) The Silk Industry of Renaissance Venice.
  • Walter Harte (1764, p. 41) mentioned "Tatti, Stefano, Agostino Gallo, Sansovino, Lauro, Tarello, etc. in Italy, published several books in agriculture..." referring to at least: Agostino Gallo, Francesco Sansovino and Camillo Tarello

Spain

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Sources
  • James Casey. Early Modern Spain: A Social History. 2002, p. 45

France

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England

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  • Anthony Fitzherbert (1470–1538), wrote The Boke of Husbandire.
  • Hugh Plat (1552–1608), English writer on agriculture and inventor
  • Rowland Vaughan (1559–1629) was an English Manoral Lord who is credited with the introduction of a new irrigation system that greatly improved the grass and hay production of meadows through a system of periodic "drownings".
  • Gervase Markham (ca. 1568–1637), was an English poet and writer, who had an exhaustive practical acquaintance with the arts of forestry and agriculture.
  • Richard Weston (1591–1652) was an English canal builder and agricultural improver.
  • Gabriel Plattes (c.1600–1644) was an English writer on agriculture and science, and also now recognised as the author of the utopian work Description of the Famous Kingdome of Macaria.
  • Walter Blith (1605–1654) was an English writer on husbandry and an official under the Commonwealth.
  • Samuel Hartlib (ca. 1600 – 1662) was a German-British polymath. An active promoter and expert writer in many fields, he was interested in science, medicine, agriculture, politics, and education.
  • Ralph Austen (c.1612–1676) was an English writer on gardening.
  • John Forster, advocated potato-growing in his 1664 Englands Happiness Increased
  • John Evelyn (1620–1706), English writer, gardener and diarist.[1]
  • John Worlidge (1640–1700) was a noted agriculturalist.
  • John Mortimer (ca. 1656–1736) English merchant, known as a writer on agriculture.[1]
  • Edward Lisle (ca. 1666-1722), wrote Observations in husbandry 1757
  • John Laurence (1668 - 1732), writer on gardening (wiki source) (VIAF=5360284) [1]
  • Jethro Tull (1674 – 1741), English agricultural pioneer, wrote The new horse-houghing husbandry in 1731, which 4th edition was publsihed in 1762.
  • Stephen Switzer (1682–1745) was a garden designer and writer on garden subjects.[1]
  • Richard Bradley (1688–1732), English naturalist specializing in botany, who published important works on ecology, horticulture, and natural history.[1]
  • Philip Miller FRS (1691 – 18 December 1771) was a Scottish botanist, who wrote The gardeners dictionary
  • Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696–1782), Scottish advocate, judge, philosopher, writer and agricultural improver
  • William Ellis (ca. 1700-1758), was an English writer on agriculture
  • John Mills (1717 – 1786 or 1796), wrote A new System of practical Husbandry Volume 1 and volume 2, 1766
  • Francis Home (1719–1813), Scottish physician and writer on agriculture
  • James Hutton (1726-1797), Scottish geologist, physician, chemical manufacturer, naturalist, and experimental agriculturalist.
  • Thomas Hale, 18th century British writer on agriculture, wrote A Compleat Body of Husbandry, 1758.
  • Mr. Rogue, 18th century agronom, who cultivated a specific species of grass, called bird-grass.

Germany

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Others

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Modern agriculture, 19th century

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England

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Main article: British agricultural revolution

France

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Germany

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Netherlands

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  • Johannes le Francq van Berkhey (1729-1812), Dutch natural scientist, physician, poet and painter
  • Hendrik Ponse, Leerboek over den Landbouw, Leyden 1810,[2]
  • Christiaan Frederik Kleynhoff van Enspijk (1761-1819)
  • Jan Kops (1765-1849)
  • Anthony Christiaan Winand Staring (1767–1840)
  • Jacobus Albertus Uilkens (1772 - 1825)
  • Gerard Wttewaall van Wickenburg (1776-1838)
  • Jan Arnold Bennet (1758-1828)
  • A.H. van der Boon Mesch (1804-1874)
  • G.J. van der Boon Mesch (1786-1822)
  • Cornelis Adriaan Bergsma (1798-1859)
  • Evert Cornelis Enklaar (1799-1880)
  • Herman Christiaan van Hall (1801-1874)

USA

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20th century

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t Ephraim Chambers (1741, Vol 1. p. 48) in the Cyclopaedia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences gave an early accounts on the authors on agriculture.
  2. ^ H. Ponse in A.J. van der Aa, Biographisch woordenboek der Nederlanden. Deel 15. J.J. van Brederode, Haarlem 1872.

Further reading

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See also

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Category:Agronomists
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