01800cam a22003133u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000320011324501050014526400510025030000470030133600260034833700260037433800360040050000850043650000310052150800830055252007220063553400450135765300200140265300210142285600430144310671UtSlPG20260610133245.0mcr n260607r2004||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPR1 aDarwin, Erasmus,d1731-180214aThe Botanic Garden. Part 2, Containing the Loves of the Plants. A Poem. :bWith Philosophical Notes. 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2004  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Botanic_Garden  aRelease date is 2004-01-01  aProduced by Jonathan Ingram, Jayam Subramanian and PG Distributed Proofreaders  a"The Botanic Garden. Part 2, Containing the Loves of the Plants. A Poem." by Erasmus Darwin is a poem published in 1789. This imaginative work transforms botanical science into verse, celebrating Linnaeus's classification of plants through vivid, sexualized metaphors that anthropomorphize flora. Darwin defends the idea that plants reproduce sexually, making scientific concepts accessible and entertaining to general readers. By blending poetry with natural history, he creates one of the first works of popular science, emphasizing connections between humanity and nature while laying groundwork for evolutionary thinking that his grandson Charles would later develop. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  nOriginal publication data not identified  aNatural history  aPlants -- Poetry40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10671