| Page | Allusion |
| Scene 1 | |
| 1 | Derby Shire |
| 1809 | |
| 2 | caro (Latin—and Caesar's Gallic Wars, p. 2) |
| Fermat's last theorem (also pp. 3, 6, 43) | |
| sin of Onan | |
| 4 | cover of a letter; folding and sealing a letter |
| picturesque (also pp. 11, 12) | |
| 5 | Hawkings on time |
| Newtonian (also pp.73-4, 81, 83) | |
| Laplace quote (also p. 73) in Gleick, p. 14 | |
| Etonian (also p. 77) | |
| 7 | Robert Southey's Thalaba and Madoc |
| Francis Jeffrey and the Edinburgh Review (also p. 53) | |
| Lord Holland | |
| 8 | Piccadilly Recreation (also pp. 22, 30, 56, 88) |
| 9 | Walter Scott |
| 19C gardening (also pp. 9-10, 12, 23-5) | |
| Capability Brown (25, 27, 48) | |
| Classical gardens: Brown doing Claude dong Virgil | |
| Romantic gardens (also p. 25) | |
| 10 | Humphry Repton (please find illustrations) |
| 11 | Salvator Rosa (also p. 25—please find illustrations) |
| cabinet of curios—please find illustrations) | |
| 12 | "Et in Arcadia ego" (also p. 13, 25—please find illustrations) |
| 13 | Anne Radcliffe |
| Horace Walpole (mentioned again, 51) | |
| Walpole the gardener | |
| 14 | Baptist in the wilderness (please find illustrations) |