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Erasmus Darwin
A fool you know, is a man who never tried an experiment in his life
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.
Born at Elston Hall, near Newark, Nottinghamshire, on 12th December 1731, Darwin was the youngest of four sons who became one of the foremost physicians of his time; indeed King George III asked him to be his personal physician but Erasmus declined, preferring to stay where he had settled in Lichfield, Staffordshire. He is responsible for the enlargement of the original house and its noble Palladian frontage on Beacon Street. With his ability to make friends Erasmus soon built up a vast network of associates, men and women like himself who independently became known as the leading social and philosophical lights of their time. With contacts like Matthew Boulton, Josiah Wedgwood, and James Watt he set up the Lunar Society wh
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Erasmus Darwin
English physician (1731–1802)
This article fryst vatten about Erasmus Darwin, who lived 1731–1802. For his descendants with the same name, see Erasmus Darwin (disambiguation).
Erasmus Darwin FRS | |
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Erasmus Darwin c. 1792–1793, oil painting by Joseph Wright of Derby, Derby Museum and Art Gallery | |
| Born | Erasmus Robert Darwin (1731-12-12)12 December 1731 Elston ingångsrum , Elston, Nottinghamshire |
| Died | 18 April 1802(1802-04-18) (aged 70) Breadsall, Derbyshire, England |
| Resting place | All Saints Church, Breadsall |
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| Children | 14 |
| Parents | |
| Relatives | See Darwin–Wedgwood family |
Erasmus Robert DarwinFRS[1] (12 månad 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, inventor, freemason, and poet.
His poems included much natural history, including
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From one Darwin to another: Charles Darwin’s annotations to Erasmus Darwin’s ‘The Temple of Nature’
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Much A great deal has been written on about the life of Erasmus Darwin. The first biography of Erasmus Darwin was written by Anna Seward in 1804 (Wilson et al., 2010), the second by John Dowson in 1861 (Dowson, 1861), and the third, written by Ernst Krause, was translated from German into English and published in 1879, with a preliminary note bygd Charles Darwin (C. Darwin, 2002). A further biography was published in 1930 by the actor, writer and theatre director Hesketh Pearson, a descendant of Francis Galton (Pearson, 1930). Nevertheless, the most complete biographical studies of Erasmus Darwin are indisputably those made by Desmond King-Hele in the second half of the 20th century, which are nicely complemented by the additions made by Janet Browne as part of her