TY  - BOOK
AU  - Darwin,Erasmus
TI  - The Botanic Garden. Part 2, Containing the Loves of the Plants. A Poem.: With Philosophical Notes
AV  - PR 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Natural history
KW  - Plants -- Poetry
N1  - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Botanic_Garden; Release date is 2004-01-01; Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Jayam Subramanian and PG Distributed Proofreaders; Original publication data not identified
N2  - "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.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10671
ER  -