The Poetical Works of Erasmus Darwin ... Containing the Botanic Garden ... and the Temple of Nature. with Philosophical Notes and Plates. Vol. II

by Erasmus Darwin

Excerpt from The Poetical Works of Erasmus Darwin, M.D. F. R. S, Vol. 2 of 3: Containing the Botanic Garden, in Two Parts, and the Temple of Nature; With Philosophical Notes and Plates; Containing the Loves of the Plants

XIV. Two powers, Diafynamia. Four Sta' mens, of which two are lower than the other two; as is feen in the two Figures of No. Xiv.

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344 pages, Paperback

Published February 17, 2011

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Erasmus Darwin was an English physiologist and poet. He was educated at the universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh. He practiced medicine most of his life. His chief poetic work was The Botanic Garden (1789 - 1792), a long poem, stilted in expression but showing enthusiasm for science and nature. His prose work Zoonomia (1794 - 1796) anticipated some of the evolutionary theories of the French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck but was intuitive and unscientific. Darwin was the grandfather of the British scientists Charles Darwin and Sir Francis Galton.