"An Introduction to British Agriculture" - English

…He was a professor of agriculture at the time of the founding of the University of Berlin. His book, General Treatise on English Agriculture (1798-1804), remains an excellent document on the history of English agriculture even today. His Principles of Rational Agriculture (1809-21), which includes economics, soil, fertilization and land improvement, crop cultivation, and livestock farming, is a masterpiece that systematized agricultural science scientifically, as well as the important principles of capitalist agricultural economics, as seen in the declaration of commercial agriculture at the beginning, and freed agricultural science from the yoke of cabinet studies. Its influence was felt throughout Europe at the time, and it was translated into nine languages. …

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…ベルリン大学新設に際し農学講座教授。著書《イギリス農業概論》(1798‐1804)は，今日でもイギリス農業史の優れた文献である。また《合理的農業の原理》(1809‐21)は，経済論，土壌論，施肥･土地改良論，作物栽培論，養畜論からなり，冒頭の営利的農業の宣言にみられるような資本制的農業経済学の重要な諸原理とともに，科学的な農学の体系化を果たすことによって，官房学のくびきから農学を独立させた名著で，その影響は当時のヨーロッパ全体に及び，9ヵ国語に訳された。…

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