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

Patricia Fara

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

Patricia Fara

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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 wel...

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