Olivier de Serres (1) (1539–1619)

I owe particular acknolegments for the valuable present of the Theatre de De Serres, which I consider as a prodigy for the age in which it was composed, and shews an advancement in the science of Agriculture which I had never suspected to have belonged to that time. Brought down to the present day by the very valuable notes added, it is really such a treasure of Agricultural knolege, as has not before been offered to the world in a single work.

(TJ to A. F. Silvestre, July 15, 1808.)
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