Sex, Botany, and Empire: The Story of Carl Linnaeus and Joseph Banks by Patricia Fara

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Sex, Botany, and Empire: The Story of Carl Linnaeus and Joseph Banks

Patricia Fara

176 pages 2003

3 editions

nonfiction biography history science informative slow-paced
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Enlightenment botany was replete with sexual symbolism--to the extent that many botanical textbooks were widely considered pornographic. Carl Linnaeus's controversial new system for classifying plants based on their sexual characteristics, as well...

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