Erasmus Darwin's The Botanic Garden
1791 · Work
A best-selling poem in heroic couplets that versifies Linnaeus's sexual system of plants and the latest science, from steam engines to geology, with copious footnotes.
On these timelines: Science & Technology, Arts and Thoughts, England, Master, United Kingdom (combined)
More from Science & Technology
- Isaac Newton (1643)
- De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (1543)
- Edison's incandescent light bulb (1879)
- Bell patents the telephone (1876)
- Invention of the transistor (1947)
- Stephenson's Rocket wins the Rainhill Trials (1829)
- The Space Race (1957)
- Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction (1831)
Around 1791
- Haitian Revolution (1791)
- Latin American wars of independence (1808)
- Greek War of Independence (1821)
- Opium Wars (1839)
- French Revolution (1789)
- Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (Choral) (1824)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- American Revolution (1765)