The Botanic Garden, a Poem in Two Parts. Part 1

Erasmus Darwin
Language: English
Genres: Life SciencesNon-fictionPoetryScience
Narrators:Matthew Muñoz
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  • 1. Advertisement and Apology
  • 2. To the Author of the Poem On the Loves of the Plants
  • 3. Canto I, lines 1-188
  • 4. Canto I, lines 189-278
  • 5. Canto I, lines 279-412
  • 6. Canto I, lines 413-600
  • 7. Canto II, lines 1-124
  • 8. Canto II, lines 125-276
  • 9. Canto II, lines 277-498
  • 10. Canto II, lines 499-610
  • 11. Canto III, lines 1-128
  • 12. Canto III, lines 129-320
  • 13. Canto III, lines 321-528
  • 14. Canto III, lines 529-590
  • 15. Canto IV, lines 1-164
  • 16. Canto IV, lines 165-358
  • 17. Canto IV, lines 359-484
  • 18. Canto IV, lines 485-640
  • 19. Note I.—Meteors.
  • 20. Note II.—Primary Colours.
  • 21. Note III.—Coloured Clouds.
  • 22. Note IV.—Comets.
  • 23. Note V.—Sun's Rays.
  • 24. Note VI.—Central Fires.
  • 25. Note VII.—Elementary Heat.
  • 26. Note VIII.—Memnon's Lyre.
  • 27. Note IX.—Luminous Insects.
  • 28. Note X.—Phosphorus.
  • 29. Note XI.—Steam-Engine.
  • 30. Note XII.—Frost.
  • 31. Note XIII.—Electricity.
  • 32. Note XIV.—Buds and Bulbs.
  • 33. Note XV.—Solar Volcanos.
  • 34. Note XVI.—Calcareous Earth.
  • 35. Note XVII.—Morasses.
  • 36. Note XVIII.—Iron.
  • 37. Note XIX.—Flint.
  • 38. Note XX.—Clay.
  • 39. Note XXI.—Enamels.
  • 40. Note XXII.—Portland Vase.
  • 41. Note XXIII.—Coal.
  • 42. Note XXIV.—Granite.
  • 43. Note XXV.—Evaporation.
  • 44. Note XXVI.—Springs.
  • 45. Note XXVII.—Shell Fish.
  • 46. Note XXVIII.—Sturgeon.
  • 47. Note XXIX.—Oil on Water.
  • 48. Note XXX.—Ship-Worm.
  • 49. Note XXXI.—Maelstrom.
  • 50. Note XXXII.—Glaciers.
  • 51. Note XXXIII.—Winds.
  • 52. Note XXXIII.—Winds. (continued)
  • 53. Note XXXIV.—Vegetable Perspiration.
  • 54. Note XXXV.—Vegetable Placentation.
  • 55. Note XXXVI—Vegetable Circulation.
  • 56. Note XXXVII—Vegetable Respiration.
  • 57. Note XXXVIII.—Vegetable Impregnation.
  • 58. Note XXXIX.—Vegetable Glandulation.

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Charles Darwin’s grandfather Erasmus was also a famous naturalist in his own day, in addition to being a celebrated poet. This is the first part of his popular science poem in heroic couplets intended to introduce botany to the English public. It serves as a general defense of scientific progress as a practical and artistic endeavor, laying the groundwork for its sequel poem on Linnaeus’ system of sexual selection in plants, Loves of the Plants. - Summary by Matthew Muñoz

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