Letters on the elements of botany. Addressed to a lady / Translated into English, with notes, and twenty-four additional letters, fully explaining the system of Linnaeus. By Thomas Martyn.

  • Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778
Date:
1785
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Credit: Letters on the elements of botany. Addressed to a lady / Translated into English, with notes, and twenty-four additional letters, fully explaining the system of Linnaeus. By Thomas Martyn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    can be of no ufe but to fuch as have a plant in their hand, nor do they pretend to any thing more, than to initiate fuch, as from their ignorance of the learned languages, are unable to profit by the works of the learned, in the firft principles of vegetable nature. Botany is not to be learnt in the clofet; you mud go forth into the garden or the fields, and there become familiar with Nature her- felf; with that beauty, order, regularity, and inexhauftible variety which is to be found in the ftru&ure of vegetables; and that won* derful fitnefs to its end, which we perceive in every work of Creation, when our limited underftandings, and partial obfervations give us a juft view of it. THE