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Charles Darwin’s achievements are all the more extraordinary when we reflect on the simple tools and domestic spaces in which he practised his post–Beagle enquiries. The relatively unchanged garden at Down House – with its glasshouse, kitchenbeds, lawn, hedgerows, adjacent woods and meadows – is a living monument to the observations, experiments, collections and continuous questioning clearly evidenced in his notes and letters.
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Sanders, D.L. (2015). The World of Downe. In: Boulter, C.J., Reiss, M.J., Sanders, D.L. (eds) Darwin-Inspired Learning. New Directions in Mathematics and Science Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-833-6_3
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