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- See Introduction by Justin Lieber in de la Mettrie, Man a Machine and Man a Plant.
- de la Mettrie, Man a Machine and Man a Plant.
- Hydra is a simple, freshwater invertebrate, up to 30 millimeters (1.2 inches) long, consist-
ing of a cylindrical tube with a mouth surrounded by a ring of stinging tentacles. It is named
after the mythical many- headed snake whose heads grew back as quickly as they were severed. - Trembley, A. (1744), Mémoires pour servir à l’ histoire d’un genre de polypes d’eau douce.
Gebr. Verbeek, Leiden. - Miller, V. (1752/ 2010), The Man- Plant: or, a Scheme for Increasing and Improving the
British Breed. Gale ECCO. - Harvey, K. (2004), Reading Sex in the Eighteenth Century. Cambridge University Press.
- Quoted by Leapman, M. (2000) The Ingenious Mr. Fairchild. St. Martin’s Press.
- Although Britain suffered no defeats in the intervening period, there were no splendid
victories either. But in 1739 and 1741, Britain suffered humiliating defeats while attempting to
seize Spanish colonies in the Caribbean. The poem was republished in 1741 with a new dedica-
tion advising women to grow only strong and beautiful plants and eschew variety. - Mimosa pudica, or the “sensitive plant,” is a leguminous herb native to South and Central
America, which is widely grown as a botanical curiosity because its compound leaves are sensi-
tive to touch. Upon contact, the leaflets fold rapidly and the petiole bends downward, a response
thought to protect the leaves from herbivores. The leaves begin to recover after a few minutes. - Fara, P. (2003), Sex, Botany and Empire: The Story of Carl Linnaeus and Joseph Banks.
Icon Books. - Perhaps it is a veiled reference to Catherine [Kitty] Douglas, Duchess of Queensberry and
Dover (1701– 77), who had died two years earlier. She was a patron of the playwright John Gay
and was reputed to be the most beautiful woman in Europe in the eighteenth century. - Peakman, Mighty Lewd Books.
- Siegesbeck, J. G. (1737), Botanosophiae verioris brevis sciographia in usum discentium
adornata: accedit ob argumenti analogiam, epicrisis in clar. Linnaei nuperrime evulagtum sys-
tema plantarum sexuale, et huic superstructam methodum botanicam; Academia scientiarum
(Petropolis). Typis Academiae, Petropoli (St. Peterburg). - Shetler, S. G. (1969), The herbarium: past, present and future. Proceedings of the Biological
Society of Washington 82:687– 758. - Ann- Mari Jönsson from the Linguistics and Philology Department of the University
of Uppsala has given a fascinating account of the vituperative battle between Siegesbeck and
Linnaeus, and much of the material in this section is taken from her symposium presenta-
tion, available online at http:// http://www.phil- hum- ren.uni- muenchen.de/ GermLat/ Acta/ Jonsson.
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- Jönsson, The reception of Linnæus’s works in Germany.
- Loosely translated from “Epicrisis in clar. Linnæi nuperrime evulgatum systema plantarum
sexuale, et huic superstructam methodum botanicam.” - Ibid. p. 49, cited by Jönsson (2002).
27. Ibid.