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Erasmus Darwin and The Loves of the Plants

Architecture News - Feb 15, 2010 - 06:05   9705 views

Erasmus Darwin wrote about the theory of evolution, not as profoundly as his grandson Charles, that is clear, and he also made a reference to the subject in his poem “The Loves of the Plants”, 1789. The poem was published in several editions of the Botanic Garden, 1790. What is so captivating for me  is his romantic anthropomorphization of the stamen (male) and pistil (female) sexual organs.
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