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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).
Jun 27, 2018 · Erasmus Darwin was the seventh child and fourth and youngest son of Robert Darwin, a retired barrister of independent means. He was educated at Chesterfield School from the age of nine, and from there, at the age of eighteen, he was awarded a Lord Exeter scholarship to St. John’s College, Cambridge.
Erasmus Robert Darwin was an English physician. One of the key thinkers of the Midlands Enlightenment, he was also a natural philosopher, physiologist, slave-trade abolitionist, inventor, and poet.
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 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...
Erasmus Darwin, 12 December 1731 -18 April 1802, English naturalist. Darwin was born in Elston Hall, Nottinghamshire, and educated at Cambridge from 1750 to 1754 and at Edinburgh from 1754 to 1756 , where he acquired a reputation for his radicalism. After graduating, he began to practice medicine in Lichfield.
