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	Erasmus Darwin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Charles Darwin's grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, was one of the leading intellectuals of eighteenth century England, a man with a remarkable array of interests and pursuits.
		Erasmus Darwin arrived at his conclusions through an "integrative" approach: he used his observations of domesticated animals, the behaviour of wildlife, and he integrated his vast knowledge of many different fields, such as paleontology, biogeography, systematics, embryology, and comparative anatomy.
		In addition to Erasmus Darwin's contributions to the future of biological studies, he was also a leader in an intellectual community that contributed to the emergence of the industrial era.
	www.ucmp.berkeley.edu /history/Edarwin.html (319 words)

	Erasmus Darwin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Erasmus Darwin was born at Elston Hall, Nottinghamshire, on 12 December 1731 and died of heart disease on 18 April 1802.
		Darwin had an entirely successful career as a medical man. Well before he was thirty he began to display an astonishing variety of talents, but it was only in the last fifteen years of his life that he began to make his reputation as a man of letters.
		Darwin seemed to believe that plants had feelings and intelligence, but the use of human images to express and to define the activities of plants and vegetables could just as easily be a humorous inversion of a poetical trope in which human feelings are expressed in figurative terms from nature.
	www.thoemmes.com /404.asp?404;http://www.thoemmes.com/encyclopedia/darwin_e.htm (874 words)

	Erasmus Alvey Darwin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Erasmus Alvey Darwin (1804–1881), nicknamed Eras or Ras, was the older brother of Charles Darwin, born five years earlier, and also brought up at the family home, The Mount House, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England.
		Erasmus enrolled with John Lizars, a "charming" and respectable surgeon on the other side of Surgeon's Square from his chief rival as a private tutor, the flamboyant Robert Knox who two years later became embroiled with the body-snatchers Burke and Hare.
		By 1828 Erasmus was ready to sit his Bachelor of Medicine exam at the University of Cambridge, and early in the new year he was accompanied to Cambridge by his brother Charles who had given up on medical studies and was now starting a course to qualify as a clergyman.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Erasmus_Alvey_Darwin (1524 words)

	Erasmus Darwin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Erasmus Darwin (December 12, 1731 – April 18, 1802) trained as a physician and wrote extensively on medicine and botany, as well as composing poetry.
		Erasmus Darwin is commemorated on one of the Moonstones, a series of monuments in Birmingham.
		Erasmus Darwin was familiar with the earlier evolutionary thinking of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo and cited him in his 1803 work Temple of Nature.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Erasmus_Darwin (832 words)

	ERASMUS DARWIN - LoveToKnow Article on ERASMUS DARWIN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The fame of Erasmus Darwin as,a poet rests upon his Botanic Garden, though he also wrote The Temple of Nature, or the Origin of Society, a Poem, with Philosophical Notes (1803), and The Shrine of Nature (posthumously published).
		Erasmus Darwins mind was in fact rather that of a man of science than that of a poet.
		Robert Waring Darwin (1766-1848), his third son by his first marriage, a doctor at Shrewsbury, was the father of the famous Charles Darwin; and Violetta, his eldest daughter by his second marriage, was the mother of Francis Galton.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /D/DA/DARWIN_ERASMUS.htm (547 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Erasmus Darwin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Darwin’s inventions were not confined to improvements in transportation and he was constantly exploring the practical manifestations of his philosophical enquiries.
		Darwin repeatedly suggests that the ancients were in possession of lost knowledge, hidden in hieroglyphs and expressed allegorically throughout classical myth.
		Darwin’s response was not entirely favourable, however, and his heavily eroticised description of plant reproduction stands in stark opposition to Withering’s bowdlerisation of the topic.
	www.literaryencyclopedia.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1138 (2656 words)

	Erasmus Darwin (Andrew Berry) - Metaweb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) is chiefly remembered for being the grandfather of Charles Darwin.
		Erasmus, a grandly overweight doctor who dabbled in just about everything, was a leading polymath - scientist, poet, inventor - in an 18th century Britain that was in the process of discovering that science and technology held the keys to progress.
		Erasmus seems to have independently derived the same theory of evolution as Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829) (of whose work he was apparently ignorant) whereby species "strive" to change in response to environmental pressures.
	www.metaweb.com /wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Erasmus_Darwin_(Andrew_Berry) (1692 words)

	Erasmus Darwin
		Erasmus Darwin, the grandfather of Charles, deserves credit for his belief in the possibility of the development of species.
		Darwin then implicitly postulates that the direct creation of life is one infinity, and the capacity to cause the generation of life is another infinity.
		Erasmus Darwin falls into this linguistic trap when he writes "The colours of many animals seem adapted to their purposes of concealing themselves either to avoid danger, or to spring upon their prey"(Erasmus Darwin, 510.).
	www.victorianweb.org /science/edarwin.html (958 words)

	Rocky Road: Erasmus Darwin
		Erasmus Darwin was one of the most amazingly diverse geniuses in history.
		Erasmus Darwin made his living as a doctor, accommodating wealthy clients with house calls and tending to the poor at no charge.
		Erasmus Darwin was likely a deist, a fervent believer in democracy, and a practitioner of what some would call "free love." These characteristics were tolerated, if not admired, while England enjoyed social stability.
	www.strangescience.net /erasmus.htm (813 words)

	erasdar
		Darwin was one of the founders of the well known Lunar Society, second only to the Royal Society in its importance as a gathering place for scientists, inventors, and natural philosophers during the second half of the eighteenth century.
		Darwin was also in the minds of the Shelley Circle (Mary, Percy, Lord Byron, Polidori) during the Frankenstein summer of 1816; he is referred to in Percy's "Preface" to the 1818 edition and in Mary's introduction to the 1831 edition of the novel.
		While the Romantics often criticized Darwin for his eighteenth-century poetic diction, his enthusiasm for materialist science, and the speculative aspects of some of his thinking, they were powerfully influenced by his view of the natural world and his belief in connections between human and nonhuman life.
	www.dickinson.edu /~nicholsa/Romnat/erasdar.htm (488 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Review \| Sexing the plants
		Erasmus Darwin was a polymathic genius, as idiosyncratic and expansive as his verse (rumour had it that he cut a half-moon in the dining table to fit his girth).
		He was born in 1731, the seventh child of a squire whose one claim to fame was the discovery of a fossil ichthyosaur in a rectory garden, and studied at Cambridge and Edinburgh, breathing the heady, improving spirit of the Scottish Enlightenment.
		Darwin was an unstoppable inventor: his futuristic designs included a steam car ("a fiery chariot"); a wire-drawn ferry; a horizontal windmill; an artificial bird; a copying machine and a speaking machine.
	books.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,12084,795705,00.html (2590 words)

	Erasmus Darwin - Metaweb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Metaweb contributor George Dyson states Erasmus Darwin (Charles's grandfather) was the real evolutionary thinker in the family, that evolution itself has to be intelligent in order to evolve and that reproduction versus replication is one of the great struggles that science needs to understand.
		Erasmus seems to be connected to all the pending nodes of the Industrial Revolution.
		Charles Darwin may have had a leg up thanks to his grandfathers but that Alfred Russel Wallace also reached similar results shows that Evolution was an idea whose time had come.
	www.metaweb.com /wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Erasmus_Darwin (503 words)

	The life of Erasmus Darwin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		It is, therefore, probable that Erasmus, as well as many other members of the family, inherited from this William, or some of his predecessors, their strong tendency to gout; and it was an early attack of gout which made Erasmus a vehement advocate for temperance throughout his whole life.
		Erasmus Darwin, is entirely without foundation; and that the doctor, on that melancholy event, gave amongst his own family, proofs of strong sensibility at the time, and of succeeding regard to the memory of his son, which he seemed to have a pride in concealing from the world.
		Darwin is therefore unwilling to leave him, and begs to defer her journey to Etruria till later in the season.
	pages.britishlibrary.net /charles.darwin3/erasmus.html (15311 words)

	Erasmus Darwin - PlantExplorers.com™
		Erasmus Darwin is one of the greatest underrated geniuses in history.
		Erasmus Darwin published several books, the most notable of which were written in the form of poems, making them widely popular in his day.
		Darwin's forward thinking on matters of society, government and religion (he was a fervent believer in democracy, free love and educational reform), which made him popular in a peaceful and prosperous nation, were regarded with suspicion and even considered subversive during the Napoleonic wars.
	www.plantexplorers.com /explorers/biographies/darwin/erasmus-darwin.html (456 words)

	Darwinism: it was all in the family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Many people erroneously think that Charles Darwin (who earned a degree in theology) was once blissfully content with the biblical explanation of origins—until, that is, as an unbiased naturalist, he stumbled across the idea of evolution by observing the ‘facts of nature’ in the Galápagos Islands in 1835.
		Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802) was one of the most erudite, enthusiastic and dedicated scientists/inventors of his day.
		Darwinism is a fraudulent faith masquerading as science; creationists have solid evidence to support their claims.
	www.answersingenesis.org /creation/v26/i1/darwinism.asp (1956 words)

	More about Erasmus Darwin
		Erasmus Darwin was a genius, but more than that, he was a likeable and thoroughly decent human being, unassuming despite the celebrity he achieved, a devoted husband and father, a loyal friend, and a character.
		Erasmus Darwin was born in 1731 at Elston, near Newark.
		Shortly after moving to Lichfield Erasmus Darwin became friendly with Matthew Boulton and, as the Lunar Circle gradually coalesced, he was one of its founding members, and a most enthusiastic member at that.
	jquarter.members.beeb.net /moreedarwin.htm (1602 words)

	Rocky Road: Charles Darwin
		In fact, Darwin devised no great evolutionary theory until after his return to England, and he was not the first person to propose evolution; it was widely discussed — at least in scientific circles — long before he published any of his theories.
		Although Darwin's theory of natural selection posed perhaps the greatest challenge to a literal belief in scripture, he was buried in Westminster Abbey, in recognition of his remarkable achievements.
		Darwin refused to discuss his own beliefs about a supreme being in public, once writing to his friend Asa Gray, "I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for human intellect.
	www.strangescience.net /darwin.htm (1645 words)

	Erasmus Darwin, Chronology and Major Publications (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) was born 12 December at Elston (near Nottingham).
		Whether Erasmus Darwin did or did not have the formal degree of MD is not known.
		Erasmus and Polly moved to a large house on the western boundary of the Cathedral Close, looking across Beacon street to the open fields west of town.
	darwin.baruch.cuny.edu /biography/erasmus_darwin/ed_chronol.html (786 words)

	Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802)
		Whilst living in Lichfield, Erasmus Darwin moved in literary circles, making the acquaintance of Samuel Johnson and Anna Seward, the "Swan of Lichfield", the latter publishing a biography of him shortly after his death.
		Erasmus Darwin was himself an amateur inventor, often talking over his ideas with Matthew Boulton, and one of his greatest successes was with an improved canal lock.
		In her biography of Maria Edgeworth, published in 1904, Emily Lawless (1845-1913) describes this Lichfield literary and scientific society and remarks that Erasmus Darwin was "a savant who contrived to impart science through the medium of poetry, but whose botany and zoology were apt to be a bide warped by his favourite theories".
	www3.shropshire-cc.gov.uk /darwine.htm (969 words)

	The Life of Erasmus Darwin - Charles Darwin
		Charles Darwin's grandfather, Erasmus, is not as well-known as he should be.
		Charles Darwin's text itself is an odd mix of biography and defence, quoting extensively from letters and other sources.
		Darwin devotes much space to rebutting "the many false statements and calumnies which have appeared about him" -- which serves some purpose (it's interesting to hear what Erasmus was charged with) but winds up sounding a bit petty and pedantic.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/darwinc/edarwin.htm (964 words)

	Charles Darwin - Complete works of Charles Darwin, Biography, Quotes
		Darwin had good reasons to doubt the view that fossils were relics of Noah's Flood and in Cambridge he had participated in discussions about the "transmutations" of species.
		Darwin's great work, The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, appeared next year, and was heavily attacked because it did not support the depiction of creation given in the book of Genesis.
		Darwin's works have had deep a influence also outside the field of natural sciences, and turned the scientific lens inward upon the unexplored dimensions of the human psychology.
	www.darwin-literature.com (1093 words)

	Creative Quotations from Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802)
		"He verified the principles of botany in "The Botanic Garden," 1789 and the laws of organic existence in "Zoonomia;" grandfather of Charles Darwin."
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	Darwin, Erasmus on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		DARWIN, ERASMUS [Darwin, Erasmus] 1731-1802, English physician and poet.
		He was the grandfather of Charles Darwin and of Francis Galton.
		The Darwin before Darwin: Erasmus Darwin, visionary science, and romantic poetry.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/D/DarwinE1.asp (286 words)

	URBANOWICZ ON DARWIN/September 1996 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Charles Darwin was an extremely important individual for a variety of reasons: the data he collected, the experiments he conducted, and the theories he proposed influenced a variety of disciplines, from anthropology to zoology as well as ecology, geology, and the general social sciences.
		Robert Darwin had the distinction of being the largest man that Charles Darwin ever observed: Robert Darwin was some six feet two inches in height, with a tremendous girth, and the last time he weighed himself he was at some 360 pounds (or 24 stone in the measurement system of the day).
		Darwin was essentially confined to his home at Down as a result of his illness from his South American research and he really did not take part in the great public and scientific debates that came about with the publication of Origin.
	www.csuchico.edu /~curban/Darwin/DarwinSem-S95.html (17104 words)

	Amazon.com: Erasmus Darwin: A Life of Unequalled Achievement: Books: Desmond King-Hele (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		A genius of astonishing diversity, Erasmus was a pioneer balloonist, freethinker, canal-builder, opponent of the British slave trade, coiner of words, inventor of a copying machine and designer of a multi-mirror telescope 200 years before the first operational model.
		Unstoppable Erasmus had two wives, 14 children, a mistress half his age and such lifelong friends as Ben Franklin and James Watt; he treated poor patients for free, traveled 30 miles a day on his rounds and was a renowned conversationalist despite a stammer.
		Erasmus Darwin was one of the great English intellectuals of the past 1,000 years, far surpassing the achievements of his grandson.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1900357089?v=glance (880 words)

	Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) : Library of Congress Citations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		By Erasmus Darwin, M.D. Edition: A new ed.; with an introductory address, and a short appendix, by Charles Caldwell...
		Title: A letter to Erasmus Darwin, M.D., on a new method of treating pulmonary consumption and some other diseases hitherto found incurable.
		Title: Erasmus Darwin / by Ernst Krause ; with a preliminary notice by Charles Darwin.
	www.mala.bc.ca /~mcneil/cit/citlcdarwine1.htm (1315 words)

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