Erasmus Darwin Summary

Erasmus Darwin 1731-1802 English naturalist and physician whose wide range of scientific interests established him as the leader of the Lunar Society, an association that included some of the most imp... Read more

The grandfather of evolutionist Charles Darwin, Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) was a prominent English physician and poet whose interests included biology, botany, and technology.Darwin was born December ... Read more

For the first fifty-seven years of his life Erasmus Darwin worked hard as a physician in the Midland counties of England and earned the highest reputation as a doctor. He was also an ingenious experim... Read more

In the following essay, Logan discusses at length Darwin's poetic merits, considering first the poet's occasional verse and continuing on through Darwin's three major works of poe... Read more

In the following excerpt, Reed examines the essence and impact of Darwin's contribution to the alternative psychological theory referred to as fluid materialism—a belief that the human m... Read more

In the following essay, Harrison focuses on Darwin's emerging ideas on the evolutionary process. Every historian of evolutionary ideas dutifully acknowledges Erasmus Darwin's distingu... Read more

In the following excerpt, Bush considers the effect of Darwin's poetical interpretation of the ideas contained in Linnaeus' Sexual System on the pioneering botanical engravings in Dr. Ro... Read more

In the following excerpt, King-Hele provides a brief overview of Darwin's works. … It is in biology, however, that Darwin is best known as a scientist, for his ideas on biological evo... Read more

In the following essay, McNeil contends that as Darwin celebrated the industrial and scientific advances of the late eighteenth century, he also expressed in his poetry an overall sense of optimism re... Read more