Search results
Erasmus Robert Darwin FRS [1] (12 December 1731 – 18 April 1802) was an English physician. One of the key thinkers of the Midlands Enlightenment, he was also a natural philosopher, physiologist, slave-trade abolitionist, [2] inventor, and poet.
Erasmus Darwin (born Dec. 12, 1731, Elston Hall, Nottinghamshire, Eng.—died April 18, 1802, Breadsall Priory, Derby, Derbyshire) was a British physician, poet, and botanist noted for his republican politics and materialistic theory of evolution.
Erasmus Darwin, Charles Darwin's grandfather, was the first Briton to explicitly write about evolution. His main prose on the topic appears in the first volume of Zoonomia (1794; click here to read his words).
Erasmus Darwin, (born Dec. 12, 1731, Elston Hall, Nottinghamshire, Eng.—died April 18, 1802, Derby, Derbyshire), British physician, poet, and botanist, grandfather of Charles Darwin and Francis Galton. A freethinker and radical, Darwin often wrote his opinions and scientific treatises in verse.
Erasmus Darwin was a respected physician, a well known poet, philosopher, botanist, and naturalist. As a naturalist, he formulated one of the first formal theories on evolution in Zoonomia, or, The Laws of Organic Life (1794-1796).
Erasmus Darwin was one of the greatest polymaths of the 18th Century. It has been said that no one since has ever rivalled him for achievements in such a wide range of fields.
Apr 4, 2023 · Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802) is recognized as one of eighteenth-century England’s leading intellectuals and naturalists. Not only was he an outstanding physician whose services were...
Dr Erasmus Darwin, F.R.S. (1731—1802), probably achieved more in a greater range of intellectual disciplines than anyone since his time. Yet he is relatively little known, because the very variety ...
Apr 22, 2014 · A polymath whose interests extended from mechanics to fungi, Erasmus Darwin was a speculative thinker of real daring - a crucial link between the eighteenth-century Enlightenment and...
Summary. As the character of a man depends in some degree on the circumstances under which he has been brought up, it will be advisable to give a very short account of the family to which Erasmus Darwin belonged.
