Erasmus Darwin was a founding member of the Lunar Society of Birmingham, the members of which were referred to as “Lunaticks.” He is here described as a polymath, an 18th-century “natural philosopher” who was a physician, scientist (with interests in botany, zoology, meteorology, chemistry, among others), inventor, and poet who also advanced quite profound evolutionary ideas two generations prior to those of his grandson, Charles Robert Darwin.
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1 February 2011
Erasmus Darwin, 18th-Century Polymath
Edward J. Kormondy
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The American Biology Teacher
Vol. 73 • No. 2
February 2011
Vol. 73 • No. 2
February 2011
Charles Darwin
Erasmus Darwin
Lunatick
physician
poet
polymath