Encyclopaedia Britannica
Source 2 : Agriculture, volume 1 A-B, page 40
Library shelfmark: EB.1
First paragraph of entry reads: ‘Agriculture is the art of assisting the earth, by means of culture, manure, & c. to bring forth plants in greater quantity, and likewise of a larger size and better quality than it would produce without these assistances’. The first edition emphasised modern science.