Article ID: CBB905822969

The place and significance of comparative trials in German agricultural writings around 1800 (2021)

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This paper discusses the place and significance of comparative trials in German agricultural writings around 1800. In the second half of the eighteenth century, practitioners of agriculture began to discuss the role and design of agricultural trials. The notion of comparative experimentation played a significant role in these discussions, but it could mean quite different things: comparative assessment of treatments in terms of yield, cost-effectiveness, and adequacy for an intended purpose; comparative input variations to explore the multitude of effects of certain causes; and the comparison of something treated with something untreated, to establish the effects of a treatment more securely. Some German agriculturists developed their methodologies explicitly in contrast to the laboratory experiment, as they conceived it. Others invoked systematic variations and practices of quality control that they imported from technological contexts. Yet others drew on philosophical discussions of cause–effect relations.

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Authors & Contributors
Lambruschini, Raffaello
Gabbrielli, Veronica
Capogrossi Colognesi, Lucia
Vyzdryk, Vitaliy
Staubermann, Klaus B.
Schickore, Jutta
Concepts
Agricultural economics
Agricultural technology
Agriculture
Experiments and experimentation
Critical editions
Agronomy
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
17th century
Early modern
Ancient
Places
Germany
Italy
Tuscany (Italy)
Europe
Atlantic world
Atlantic Ocean
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