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Title: A strange, apologetic summary of Tull
Review: While most books about famous people are either laudatory or condemnatory, this one is completely undecided. I couldn't determine if the author himself felt this way, or was trying for balance. Tull is known for his seed-drill and horse-hoe, which are forerunners of today's havesters, plows, and other farming machinery. This book gives a strange biography, descriptions of seed drills and other implements prior to Tull's work, a brief account of Tull's book and its immediate results, and finally a description of some modern farming equipment. The whole is written in a verbose apologetic manner, as if the author is fearful that either the pro-Tull or anti-Tull contingent will attack him if he says something too plainly or too boldly.There is useful information here, but it was a chore to find it.
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