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In this paper I argue that Virgil’s Georgics was taken seriously in the early decades of the eighteenth century as a scientific document. This view of the poem underlies a bitter dispute that broke out between Jethro Tull and Stephen Switzer over the technical merits of Virgil’s agricultural precepts, a controversy I trace in some detail. I consider how and why the Georgics could be read in this way, and I argue that Tull’s attack on the didactic claims eighteenth-century readers made for the poem had the effect, in the long run, of eroding its extraordinary literary and cultural authority.Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Research Gran

Reading Virgil's Georgics as a Scientific Text: The Eighteenth-Century Debate between Jethro Tull and Stephen Switzer