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Erasmus Darwin and The Loves of the Plants
Architecture News - Feb 15, 2010 - 06:05 9765 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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