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No man [can] become a nice, discriminating, and eminent botanist, without possessing that acumen in perception in proportion, colour, harmony of design, and obscure differences in the objects of the vegetable world, which alone belong to the eye of the painter.
Benjamin Smith Barton
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Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.
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Born:
February 10, 1766
Died:
December 19, 1815
(aged 49)
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Benjamin Smith Barton was an American botanist, naturalist, and physician.
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A vocabulary of Stockbridge Mahican
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