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Erasmus Darwin ( Elston, 12 dicembre 1731 – Breadsall, 18 aprile 1802) è stato un filosofo, poeta, medico e naturalista britannico, nonno del più famoso Charles, nonché dello studioso Francis Galton . Indice. 1 Biografia. 2 Famiglia. 3 Note. 4 Altri progetti. 5 Collegamenti esterni. Biografia.
Erasmus Robert Darwin FRS (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.
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26 feb 2024 · 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.
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Erasmus Darwin. 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 discusses the descent of life from a common ancestor, sexual selection, the analogy of artificial ...
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.
Poeta, medico e filosofo (Elston Hall, Nottinghamshire, 1731 - Breadsal, Derbyshire, 1802), nonno di Charles Robert. È autore fra l'altro della Zoonomia (1794-96), trattato filosofico di fisiologia e psicologia, e di due notevoli poemetti: The botanic garden (1789-92) e The temple of nature (post., 1803), per i quali è considerato un ...
Erasmus Darwin died on Sunday 18th April 1802, probably of a lung infection. His final volume of poetry – The Temple of Nature or The Origin of Society – was published posthumously. To find out more about him, his life and work, read Desmond King-Hele’s biography Erasmus Darwin: a Life of Unequalled Achievement or Jenny Uglow’s The ...