The Genius of Erasmus Darwin provides insight into the full extent of Erasmus Darwin's exceptional intellect. He is shown to be a major creative thinker and innovator, one of the minds behind the late eighteenth-century industrial revolution, and one of the first, if not the first, to perceive the living world (including humans) as part of a unified evolutionary scenario. The contributions here provide contextual understandings of Erasmus Darwin's thought, as well as studies of particular works and accounts of the later reception of his writings. In this way it is possible to see why the young Samuel Taylor Coleridge was moved to describe Darwin as 'the first literary character in Europe, and the most original-minded man'. Erasmus Darwin, Charles Darwin's grandfather, was one of the leading intellectuals of eighteenth-century England. He was a man with an extraordinary range of interests and activities: he was a doctor, biologist, inventor, poet, linguist, and botanist. He was also a founding member of the Lunar Society, an intellectual community that included such eminent men as James Watt and Josiah Wedgwood.
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Erasmus Darwin, Charles Darwin, Lunar Society, The Economy of Vegetation, Breadsall Priory, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Josiah Wedgwood, Tom Wedgwood, James Watt, The Origin of Society, Desmond King-Hele, Cambridge University Library, Garden of Eden, John Floyer, John Whitehurst, Lichfield Cathedral, Richard Wilkes, Sydney Cove, William Withering, Anna Seward, College of Physicians, James Hutton, Luigi Galvani, Nicholas Redman, Benjamin Franklin New!
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Erasmus Darwin, Charles Darwin, Lunar Society, The Economy of Vegetation, Breadsall Priory, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Josiah Wedgwood, Tom Wedgwood, James Watt, The Origin of Society, Desmond King-Hele, Cambridge University Library, Garden of Eden, John Floyer, John Whitehurst, Lichfield Cathedral, Richard Wilkes, Sydney Cove, William Withering, Anna Seward, College of Physicians, James Hutton, Luigi Galvani, Nicholas Redman, Benjamin Franklin New!
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- Science And Beliefs: From Natural Philosophy To Natural Science, 1700-1900 (Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945) by David M. Knight in Front Matter
- Nervous Conditions: Science And the Body Politic in Early Industrial Britain (Suny Series in the Long Nineteenth Century; Suny Series in Science, Technology, and Society (Discontinued)) by Elizabeth Green Musselman in Back Matter
- Charles Darwin: A New Life by John Bowlby in Back Matter
- Science and Spirituality: The Volatile Connection by David Knight in Back Matter
- Jeremiah Joyce: Radical Dissenter and Writer (Science, Technology and Culture, 1700–1945) (Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945) by John Issitt in Front Matter
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