Article: Call for day to honour grandfather of Darwin.(News)

Article: Erasmus Darwin
Encyclopedia of World Biography;      700+ words ...Erasmus Darwin The grandfather of evolutionist Charles Darwin, Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) was a prominent English ... Robert, became the father of the naturalist Charles Darwin. Erasmus Darwin's wife died in 1770, and he continued ...

Article: PRESENTATION ON ERASMUS DARWIN AT NORTHERN MICHIGAN ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  March 5, 2009 ;     393 words ... ... A free presentation titled "Erasmus Darwin: England's Leonardo?" is ... Kingdom. He was chair of the Erasmus Darwin Bicentennial Committee from ... Darwin-the grandfather of Charles Darwin-was an Englishphysician ...

Article: Erasmus Darwin and the fungus school.
Wordsworth Circle;  June 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... endeavor is the career of Erasmus Darwin, who in the 1790s ... this paper might be "Erasmus Darwin's Dangerous Idea ... Dennett's account, Charles Darwin's theory of natural ... s length (521). Erasmus Darwin did not advance an ...

Article: The genius of Erasmus Darwin.(BIOLOGY)(Brief ...
SciTech Book News;  June 1, 2005 ;     514 words ...QH31 2004-001762 0-7546-3671-2 The genius of Erasmus Darwin. Title main entry. Ed. by C.U.M. Smith and Robert Arnott ... collection gives convincing evidence for the importance and relevance of Charles Darwin's grandfather.

Article: Living history: At home with the memory of 18th century ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  October 8, 2002 ;     305 words ... ... he chats to Canon Tony Barnard during his visit to Erasmus Darwin house in Lichfield when he joined a lunch marking ... Midlander's inventions. Erasmus, the grandfather of Charles Darwin, also wrote books of philosophical poetry

Article: Polymath whom history has consigned to archives; LOCAL HISTORY ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  March 31, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... CHRIS UPTON Life was pretty good to Erasmus Darwin. There were two happy marriages ... vagaries of time and celebrity. Yet Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) of Lichfield was arguably ... feature of the man was the least public. Erasmus Darwin was one of the most entertaining letter ...

Article: The Darwin before Darwin: Erasmus Darwin, visionary ...
Papers on Language & Literature;  March 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Erasmus Darwin was at the center of the ideas and ... the speculations of the others" (Erasmus Darwin 25). Darwin's speculations and ... Klingender notes, The importance of Erasmus Darwin for the intellectual history of the ...