Amy Todman
artist and writer
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For the Attention of Early British Antiquarians, A play in three parts.
Hospitalfield Interdisciplinary Residency, 2014
“Why may not the seeds of the rock plants be disposed of in the earth from the first as well as other seeds that are upon the earth, that they might also grow up shed their seed and produce their like, and if the sea hae the likeness of all things upon the land why mayn’t the bowels of the earth hae somewhat like unto it?”
Extract taken from two letters written by Mr. John Beaumont Junior of Stony-Easton in Somerset-shire, Concerning Rock-plants and their Growth, ‘Philosophical Transactions No. 129’, 1676.