Abstract
During the Age of Enlightenment, we witness the creation of various institutions aimed as support of farmers' education and modernisation in agriculture. e very rst such association was the Dublin Society for the Improvement of Husbandry, Agriculture, and other useful Arts, founded in 1731. In the course of the eighteenth century, it was followed by numerous similar institutions all over Europe. e aim of this contribution is to present the activities and importance of the Dublin Society using concepts of Enlightenment in industry and social geography of knowledge.
Activities of the Dublin Society are then compared with the scope of its Czech equivalent, the Gesellscha für Ackerbau und Freien-Künste im Kgr. Böhmen (Society for Ploughing and Liberal Arts in the Kingdom of Bohemia)