History
Visions of Algae in Eighteenth-Century Botany
The remarkable story of an eighteenth-century alga that made its way from obscurity to the open air to the first pages of Frankenstein.
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History
Darwin’s Botanic Garden: A Poem by Any Other Name
Why did Erasmus Darwin title his poem The Botanic Garden, when it covered such a wide array of subjects? That's what this talk aims to answer.
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History
On Blumenbach's Concept of Nature
The meaning of nature as it appeared in J. F. Blumenbach's 18th-century textbook on natural history
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