1. Erasmus Darwin Erasmus Darwin (17311802). Organic pursuits. Erasmus Darwin was a respectedphysician, a well known poet, philosopher, botanist, and naturalist. http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/Edarwin.html

Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) Organic life beneath the shoreless waves Was born and nurs'd in ocean's pearly caves; First forms minute, unseen by spheric glass, Move on the mud, or pierce the watery mass; These, as successive generations bloom, New powers acquire and larger limbs assume; Whence countless groups of vegetation spring, And breathing realms of fin and feet and wing. Erasmus Darwin. The Temple of Nature. 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 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). He also presented his evolutionary ideas in verse, in particular in the posthumously published poem The Temple of Nature . Although he did not come up with natural selection, he did discuss ideas that his grandson elaborated on sixty years later, such as how life evolved from a single common ancestor, forming "one living filament". He wrestled with the question of how one species could evolve into another. Although some of his ideas on how evolution might occur are quite close to those of Lamarck , Erasmus Darwin also talked about how competition and sexual selection could cause changes in species: "The final course of this contest among males seems to be, that the strongest and most active animal should propogate the species which should thus be improved". 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. This "integrative" approach is the very foundation upon which the

2. Lefalophodon Erasmus Darwin Erasmus Darwin (17311802). ORGANIC LIFE beneath the shoreless wavesWas born and nurs'd in Ocean's pearly caves; First forms minute http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/~alroy/lefa/ErasmusDarwin.html

Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) ORGANIC LIFE beneath the shoreless waves Was born and nurs'd in Ocean's pearly caves; First forms minute, unseen by spheric glass, Move on the mud, or pierce the watery mass; These, as successive generations bloom, New powers acquire, and larger limbs assume; Whence countless groups of vegetation spring, And breathing realms of fin, and feet, and wing. Renowned English medical doctor, poet, inventor, and naturalist. In his Zoonomia and Temple of Nature, he offered a speculative theory of evolution that was widely denounced for religious and political reasons. Although these arguments did not clearly enunciate the theory of natural selection sensu stricto, they did capture basic ideas such as the unity of organic life, the efficacy of sexual selection, and the importance of heredity and the struggle of existence for the evolutionary process, while avoiding any emphasis on teleology or Lamarckian inheritance. Grandfather of Charles Darwin and Francis Galton ; Erasmus' son Robert followed him in founding a lucrative medical practice, and in turn sent Charles to study medicine at Edinburgh. However, Charles showed little interest in the family profession. Erasmus founded the highly influential Lunar Society in about 1766; it included Priestly, Watt, Wedgwood (Charles Darwin's other grandfather), and other notable English intellectuals. Career: Student, Cambridge, 1750-1754 (B.A., 1754; M.B., 1755)

3. Erasmus Darwin - Wikipedia Erasmus Darwin. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Erasdarwin1.jpgErasmus Darwin. Erasmus Darwin (December 12,1731 April http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasmus_Darwin

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4. Erasmus Darwin Erasmus Darwin. Thomas E. Hart. Erasmus Darwin, the grandfather of Charles, deservescredit for his belief in the possibility of the development of species. http://65.107.211.206/science/edarwin.html

Erasmus Darwin Thomas E. Hart Erasmus Darwin, the grandfather of Charles , deserves credit for his belief in the possibility of the development of species. George Bernard Shaw, in the preface to Back to Methuselah Collected Plays With Prefaces, (New York, 1960) II, xxi), describes Erasmus Darwin as one of the originators of evolutionary theory, and quotes an excerpt from the following passage: For if we may compare infinities, it would seem to require a greater infinity of power to cause the causes of effects, than to cause the effects themselves. This idea is analogous to to the improving excellence observable in every part of the creation; such as in the prgressive increase of the solid or habitable parts of the earth from water; and in the progressive increase of the wisdom and happiness of its inhabitants; and is consonant to the idea of our present siutation being a state of probation, which by our exertion we may improve, and are consequently responsible for our actions. [Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia

5. Rocky Road: Erasmus Darwin Erasmus Darwin. First forms minute, unseen his biography. Erasmus Darwinwas one of the most amazingly diverse geniuses in history. To his http://www.strangescience.net/erasmus.htm

Erasmus Darwin First forms minute, unseen by spheric glass, Move on the mud, or pierce the watery mass; These, as successive generations bloom, New powers acquire, and larger limbs assume; Whence countless groups of vegetation spring, And breathing realms of fin, and feet, and wing. In his posthumously published Temple of Nature , Erasmus Darwin outlined not only his belief in evolution, but his belief that modern life arose from simple, minute organisms. Decades later, when faced with the same brand of derision Erasmus had faced, Charles Darwin would try to disown his scandalous grandfather, then eventually relent and write his biography. Erasmus Darwin was one of the most amazingly diverse geniuses in history. To his credit were the inventions of a speaking machine, copying machine and carriage steering system later used in automobiles. In the field of geology, he was influenced by his friend James Hutton, though he accepted elements of both Neptunism and Vulcanism. He developed a model of the atmosphere that was not overturned until the 1950s. He correctly identified sugars and starches as the byproducts of plant "digestion", recognized the importance of nitrates and phosphorous in sustaining vegetation and, decades before their actual discovery, predicted the existence of stomata; after coating leaves with oil and observing their subsequent death, he concluded that they must breathe through tiny pores. An eminent physician, Erasmus Darwin was an early adopter of sanitation and a promoter of temperance and vaccinations. His grandson Charles Darwin wrote, "He was much in advance of his age in his ideas as to sanitary arrangements such as supplying towns with pure water, having holes made into crowded sitting and bed-rooms for the constant admission of fresh air, and not allowing chimneys to be closed during summer." A master of verse, he penned

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Erasmus Darwin 1731 - 1802 In 1731 at Elston Hall, near Newark, Erasmus Darwin was born. His father, a lawyer, retired early after inheriting the hall, however, it was on a limited income. This meant that Erasmus and his brother had to work for their living. In 1775, Erasmus met Mrs Elizabeth Pole, the wife of Colonel Edward Pole who lived at Radburn Hall, near Derby. Erasmus fell in love with Elizabeth. However, he could only make his feelings known by poetry, of which 26 have been saved for us to read. In 1780 Colonel Pole died and during the following year Erasmus married Elizabeth and left Lichfield to live at Radburn and Derby. They enjoyed 21 years together and had their own family of seven children. Erasmus died in 1802 at the age of 70. Since Erasmus has been around, it has been said that no one has achieved as much as he did. He was a doctor, a scientist, a poet, an inventor and a pioneer of the theory of evolution. Erasmus was famous for his people skills and had a gift for friendship. Erasmus was a keen mechanical inventor and devised his own steering system used in modern cars, he produced a speaking machine and a copying machine, it was so good that the copy could not be told by the original document. Erasmus had an insight into physical and biological science and was the first to appreciate the complete process of photosynthesis in plants. With his remarkable life Erasmus Darwin was an extremely famous man with many admired talents.

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Famous Lichfeldians Erasmus Darwin - (1731-1802) After Samuel Johnson, Darwin is the most significant of Lichfieldians. Darwin settled in Lichfield in 1756, living in the large house by the West Gate entrance to the Close in Beacon Street. He established a reputation as a doctor, scientist, inventor and literary man and built up a national reputation for his humane and efficient treatment of medical problems, particularly insanity. His scientific and technological studies contributed much to the work of the Lunar Society. This group - which also included Josiah Wedgwood, James Watt and Matthew Boulton - was one of the intellectual forces behind the Industrial Revolution. It would occasionally meet in Lichfield. Like many members of the Society, Darwin had radical political and religious views and on his few meetings with Johnson these may have been a cause for dispute. But, like Johnson, Darwin had a vast range of interests. At his gardens at the Abnalls and by Stowe Pool he did much botanical research and his opinions on evolution anticipated those of his grandson, Charles. His literary career began after he and his second wife moved to Derbyshire in 1781. His poetry was an influence on poets like Shelley and Coleridge and is well seen in his most famous books

9. Erasmus Darwin Erasmus Darwin (17311802). Erasmus Darwin was born in Nottinghamshire, England,and educated at the universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh. http://hsc.virginia.edu/hs-library/historical/classics/Darwin.html

Erasmus Darwin Zoonomia; or the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin was born in Nottinghamshire, England, and educated at the universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh. His medical practice in Lichfield was so successful that King George III invited him to be his personal physician, a post that Darwin politely refused. Darwin's interests extended well beyond the practice of medicine. He was dissatisfied with Linnaeus's theory of the immutability of species and instead proposed the gradual evolution of animals and plants. He published his ideas in Zoonomia; or the Laws of Organic Life in 1794. This work has been called "the first consistent all-embracing hypothesis of evolution." The publications of his French contemporaries, Cuvier and Lamarck, strengthened Darwin's position and provided the foundation for later studies in the field, most notably for that of Charles Darwin, grandson of Erasmus. It should be noted, however, that Charles Darwin rejected his grandfather's strict mechanistic, semi-experimental approach and even claimed that Zoonomia had no effect on his famous work

10. Erasmus Darwin Erasmus Darwin (1731 1802). Erasmus Darwin is one of the greatestunderrated geniuses in history. The Erasmus Darwin Foundation. http://www.plantexplorers.com/Explorers/Biographies/Darwin/Erasmus01.htm

Home Explorers Photography Resources ... The Golde Age of Botany Erasmus Darwin Carl Linaeus Joseph Banks Charles Darwin Erasmus Darwin (1731 - 1802) Erasmus Darwin is one of the greatest underrated geniuses in history. Erasmus Darwin was an accomplished scientist, physician, botanist, inventor, naturalist, best-selling author, philosopher and poet. He maintained correspondences with many of the great thinkers and explorers of his day, including Carl Linnaeus and Joseph Banks . He developed his own theories, conducted exhaustive research to support his ideas, and did this all while maintaining one of the most successful medical practices in all of England. Born at Elston Hall near Nottingham in 1731, he was educated at Chesterfield School then later at St. John's College at Cambridge. He went on to obtain his degree at Edinburgh Medical School, and then set up a very successful medical practice in Lichfield. Decades, if not centuries, ahead of his time, Erasmus Darwin did groundbreaking research on plants, recognizing the function of photosynthesis and its great importance in the survival of all life. His meticulous translation of Linnaeus's works into English made them accessible to a much wider audience, and no doubt influenced the studies of many young botanists to come.

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Erasmus Darwin (1731 - 1802) Erasmus Darwin is one of the greatest underrated geniuses in history. Erasmus Darwin was an accomplished scientist, physician, botanist, inventor, naturalist, best-selling author, philosopher and even poet. He maintained correspondences with many of the great thinkers and explorers of his day, including Carl Linnaeus and Joseph Banks . He developed his own theories, conducted exhaustive research to support his ideas, and did this all while maintaining one of the most successful medical practices in all of England. Born at Elston Hall near Nottingham in 1731, he was educated at Chesterfield School then later at St. John's College at Cambridge. He went on to obtain his degree at Edinburgh Medical School, and then set up a very successful medical practice in Lichfield. Decades, if not centuries, ahead of his time, Erasmus Darwin did groundbreaking research on plants, recognizing the function of photosynthesis and its great importance in the survival of all life. His meticulous translation of Linnaeus's works into English made them accessible to a much wider audience, and no doubt influenced the studies of many young botanists to come. He was also a great advocate of biological evolution, and laid much of the theoretical groundwork that his grandson

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document.write(""); DARWIN, ERASMUS he regarded as modifications of the one fundamental movement (circumnutation) which exists in a highly specialized form in climbing plants. Insectivorous Plants (1875) is principally concerned with the description of experiments on the Sun-dew (Drosera),although other insect-catching plants, such as Dionaea, are also investigated. The appearance of Charles Darwin has been made well known in numerous portraits and statues. He was tall and thin, being about six feet high, but looked less because of a stoop, which increased towards the end of his life. As a young man he had been active,with considerable powers of endurance, and possessed in a marked degree those qualities of eye and hand which make the successful sportsman. In addition to the personal qualities and powers of Charles Darwin, there were other contributing causes without which the world could never have reaped the benefit of his genius. It is Charles Darwin was honoured by the chief societies of the civilized world. He was made a knight of the Prussian order, ‘ Pour le Mérite,” in 1867, a corresponding member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences in 1863, a fellow in 1878, and later in the same year a corresponding member of the French Institute in the botanical section. He received the Bressa prize of the Royal Academy of Turin, and the Baly medal of the Royal College of Physicians in 1879, the Wollaston medal of the Geological Society in 1859, a Royal medal of the Royal Society in 1853, and the Copley medal in 1864. His health prevented him from accepting the honorary degree which Oxford University wished to confer on him, but his own university had stronger claims, and he received its honorary LL.D. in 1877.

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Home Encyclopedia Summa Fathers ... K > Erasmus Darwin Keyes A B C D ... Z Erasmus Darwin Keyes CULLUM, Biog. Register of the Officers and Graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. (New York, 1868). THOMAS F. MEEHAN Transcribed by Robert B. Olson Offered to Almighty God for the conversion of all current and former members of the U.S. Armed Forces to Our Lord's Holy Catholic Church The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume VIII Nihil Obstat, October 1, 1910. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York We also recommend The Catholic Company and Aquinas and More and The Catholic Store for Catholic books and gifts. Subscribe to our FREE Catholic newsletter. 23 March 2003. "Blessed be Jesus Christ in His Angels and in His Saints The Divine Praises

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Erasmus Darwin Physician, poet, philosopher, botanist, naturalist and grandfather of Charles Darwin . Erasmus formulated one of the first formal theories on evolution in Zoonomia, or, The Laws of Organic Life (1794-1796). Many of his ideas were fully developed by his grandson sixty years later. [Adapted from U. C. Berkeley] Browse Research Links Related Science Links Baroque Science

20. Wired News: Breeding The Machine This book's heroes are great thinkers of history like Leibniz, Hooke, and darwin not Charles, but his grandfather erasmus. Wired News http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,4277,00.html

Welcome to Wired News. Skip directly to: Search Box Section Navigation Content Search: News Animations Wired Magazine HotBot (the Web) Breeding the Machine Page 1 of 1 12:05 PM Jun. 06, 1997 PT Darwin Among the Machines is not your usual cutting-edge book about self-organizing systems, parallel processing, and artificial life. Author George Dyson covers those topics, and covers them well, but through the eyes of people who have never heard of chaos theory, the Santa Fe Institute, or the MIT Media Lab. This book's heroes are great thinkers of history like Leibniz, Hooke, and Darwin - not Charles, but his grandfather Erasmus, who wrote in 1794 that "the world itself might have been generated, rather than created; that is, it might have been gradually produced from very small beginnings, increasing by the activity of its inherent principles." Story Tools Today's Top 5 Stories Device: Arabic In, English Out Critics Blast Cuban Crackdown Can NASA Really Make It to Mars? Deadly Virus Triggers Snow Day Another typical protagonist is Lewis Fry Richardson, who proposed using 64,000 computers concurrently to predict the weather. Richardson made his proposal in 1917, at a time when a "computer" was a person with a pencil. His 0.0000001-megahertz clock was a human conductor with a baton, and his packet-switched communication system involved passing around slips of paper. Not advanced enough for you? How about the packet-switched digital communications system, based on optical technology, that spanned Europe in the 18th century? You'll have to read the book to get the details, but I'll give you a hint: it worked at the rate of about two signals per minute.

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