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100 1 _aDarwin, Erasmus,
_d1731-1802
245 1 4 _aThe Botanic Garden. Part 2, Containing the Loves of the Plants. A Poem. :
_bWith Philosophical Notes.
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2004
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Botanic_Garden
500 _aRelease date is 2004-01-01
508 _aProduced by Jonathan Ingram, Jayam Subramanian and PG Distributed Proofreaders
520 _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.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aNatural history
653 _aPlants -- Poetry
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10671
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