Author: Erasmus DarwinPublisher:
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Languages : en
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The Botanic Garden; a Poem, a in Two Parts. Part I. Containing The Economy of Vegetation. Part II. The Loves of the Plants. With Philosophical Notes. [By Erasmus Darwin, the Elder. With Plates.]
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Author: Erasmus DarwinThe Botanic Garden
Author: Erasmus DarwinPublisher:
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The Botanic Garden
Author: Erasmus DarwinPublisher:
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
The Botanic Garden; a Poem, in Two Parts. Part I. Containing The Economy of Vegetation. Part II. The Loves of the Plants. With Philosophical Notes
Author: Erasmus DarwinPublisher:
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
The Botanic Garden by Erasmus Darwin
Author: Adam KomisarukPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1315534525
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The career of Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) affords an extraordinary glimpse into the intellectual ferment of late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Britain. As a popular poet, practicing physician, inventor of speaking machines and mechanical birds, essayer of natural history from geology to meteorology, and proponent of an evolutionary theory that inspired his famous grandson Charles, he left a lasting impression on almost every branch of knowledge. His magnum opus, and the synthesis of his myriad interests, is The Botanic Garden (1792) — an epic poem that aims to "enlist the Imagination under the banner of Science." Part I, The Economy of Vegetation, sings the praises of British industry as a dance of supernatural creatures while part II, The Loves of the Plants, wittily employs metaphors of human courtship to describe the reproductive cycles of hundreds of flowers. Darwin supplements his accomplished verses with (often much longer) "philosophical notes" that offer his idiosyncratic perspective on the scholarly controversies of the day. Despite a recent surge of academic interest in Darwin, however, no authoritative critical edition of The Botanic Garden exists, presenting a barrier to further scholarship. This two volume set comprises a complete, meticulously transcribed, reading text — including all the poetry, prose apparatus, and illustrations — along with extensive commentary that situates Darwin within contemporary debates about the natural sciences. This set will be of interest to readers as the definitive reference edition of The Botanic Garden and due to its efforts to make the work more practically and intellectually accessible to seasoned and novice readers alike This second volume includes the full version of the second part of The Botanic Garden, The Lives of Plants along with the related textual apparatus consisting of the editors’ annotations, discussion of the illustrations, textual notes, and a taxonomic table of the flowers mentioned.
Women's Travel Writings in Revolutionary France, Part I Vol 2
Author: Stephen BendingPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040288847
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
A seven-volume facsimile set which comprises accounts of France in the 1790s. The texts are drawn from the Chawton House Library collection.
Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Author: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 1598
Book Description
اختراع الطبيعة
Author: Andrea WulfPublisher: دائرة الثقافة والسياحة – أبوظبي، مركز أبوظبي للغة العربية، مشروع كلمة للترجمة
ISBN: 994837195X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The Invention of Nature
Author: Andrea WulfPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0345806298
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The acclaimed author of Founding Gardeners reveals the forgotten life of Alexander von Humboldt, the visionary German naturalist whose ideas changed the way we see the natural world—and in the process created modern environmentalism. "Vivid and exciting.... Wulf’s pulsating account brings this dazzling figure back into a dazzling, much-deserved focus.” —The Boston Globe Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was the most famous scientist of his age, a visionary German naturalist and polymath whose discoveries forever changed the way we understand the natural world. Among his most revolutionary ideas was a radical conception of nature as a complex and interconnected global force that does not exist for the use of humankind alone. In North America, Humboldt’s name still graces towns, counties, parks, bays, lakes, mountains, and a river. And yet the man has been all but forgotten. In this illuminating biography, Andrea Wulf brings Humboldt’s extraordinary life back into focus: his prediction of human-induced climate change; his daring expeditions to the highest peaks of South America and to the anthrax-infected steppes of Siberia; his relationships with iconic figures, including Simón Bolívar and Thomas Jefferson; and the lasting influence of his writings on Darwin, Wordsworth, Goethe, Muir, Thoreau, and many others. Brilliantly researched and stunningly written, The Invention of Nature reveals the myriad ways in which Humboldt’s ideas form the foundation of modern environmentalism—and reminds us why they are as prescient and vital as ever.
Romance and Revolution
Author: David DuffPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521450188
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Relates the revival of literary romance to the French Revolution's imaginative impact on English Romanticism.