Episodes

  • Canzoniere-Dante Alighieri

    Canzoniere-Dante Alighieri
    Sep 5 2026
    Charles Darwin’s grandfather Erasmus was also a famous naturalist in his own day, in addition to being a celebrated poet. This is the first part of his popular science poem in heroic couplets intended to introduce botany to the English public. It serves as a general defense of scientific progress as a practical and artistic endeavor, laying the groundwork for its sequel poem on Linnaeus’ system of sexual selection in plants, Loves of the Plants. - Summary by Matthew Muñoz
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    3 hrs and 47 mins
  • Bells-Edgar Allan Poe

    Bells-Edgar Allan Poe
    Sep 4 2026
    Charles Darwin’s grandfather Erasmus was also a famous naturalist in his own day, in addition to being a celebrated poet. This is the first part of his popular science poem in heroic couplets intended to introduce botany to the English public. It serves as a general defense of scientific progress as a practical and artistic endeavor, laying the groundwork for its sequel poem on Linnaeus’ system of sexual selection in plants, Loves of the Plants. - Summary by Matthew Muñoz
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    1 hr and 24 mins
  • Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Part 3-Charles Darwin

    Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Part 3-Charles Darwin
    Sep 3 2026
    Charles Darwin’s grandfather Erasmus was also a famous naturalist in his own day, in addition to being a celebrated poet. This is the first part of his popular science poem in heroic couplets intended to introduce botany to the English public. It serves as a general defense of scientific progress as a practical and artistic endeavor, laying the groundwork for its sequel poem on Linnaeus’ system of sexual selection in plants, Loves of the Plants. - Summary by Matthew Muñoz
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    3 hrs and 6 mins
  • Purple Sapphire, and Other Posthumous Papers Complete Edition-Christopher Blayre

    Purple Sapphire, and Other Posthumous Papers Complete Edition-Christopher Blayre
    Sep 2 2026
    Charles Darwin’s grandfather Erasmus was also a famous naturalist in his own day, in addition to being a celebrated poet. This is the first part of his popular science poem in heroic couplets intended to introduce botany to the English public. It serves as a general defense of scientific progress as a practical and artistic endeavor, laying the groundwork for its sequel poem on Linnaeus’ system of sexual selection in plants, Loves of the Plants. - Summary by Matthew Muñoz
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    5 hrs and 13 mins
  • Anglo-American Alliance A Serio-Comic Romance and Forecast of the Future-Gregory Casparian

    Anglo-American Alliance A Serio-Comic Romance and Forecast of the Future-Gregory Casparian
    Sep 1 2026
    Charles Darwin’s grandfather Erasmus was also a famous naturalist in his own day, in addition to being a celebrated poet. This is the first part of his popular science poem in heroic couplets intended to introduce botany to the English public. It serves as a general defense of scientific progress as a practical and artistic endeavor, laying the groundwork for its sequel poem on Linnaeus’ system of sexual selection in plants, Loves of the Plants. - Summary by Matthew Muñoz
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    3 hrs and 18 mins
  • Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Collected Translations-Omar Khayyám

    Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Collected Translations-Omar Khayyám
    Aug 31 2026
    Charles Darwin’s grandfather Erasmus was also a famous naturalist in his own day, in addition to being a celebrated poet. This is the first part of his popular science poem in heroic couplets intended to introduce botany to the English public. It serves as a general defense of scientific progress as a practical and artistic endeavor, laying the groundwork for its sequel poem on Linnaeus’ system of sexual selection in plants, Loves of the Plants. - Summary by Matthew Muñoz
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    1 hr and 50 mins
  • St. George and St. Michael, Volume 1-George MacDonald

    St. George and St. Michael, Volume 1-George MacDonald
    Aug 30 2026
    Charles Darwin’s grandfather Erasmus was also a famous naturalist in his own day, in addition to being a celebrated poet. This is the first part of his popular science poem in heroic couplets intended to introduce botany to the English public. It serves as a general defense of scientific progress as a practical and artistic endeavor, laying the groundwork for its sequel poem on Linnaeus’ system of sexual selection in plants, Loves of the Plants. - Summary by Matthew Muñoz
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    5 hrs and 13 mins
  • Science and the Modern World-Alfred North Whitehead

    Science and the Modern World-Alfred North Whitehead
    Aug 29 2026
    Charles Darwin’s grandfather Erasmus was also a famous naturalist in his own day, in addition to being a celebrated poet. This is the first part of his popular science poem in heroic couplets intended to introduce botany to the English public. It serves as a general defense of scientific progress as a practical and artistic endeavor, laying the groundwork for its sequel poem on Linnaeus’ system of sexual selection in plants, Loves of the Plants. - Summary by Matthew Muñoz
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    7 hrs and 36 mins