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Erasmus Darwin

Also known as Erasmus Robert Darwin

English physician (1731-1802)

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Erasmus Darwin was an 18th-century English doctor who developed early scientific ideas about how life evolves and changes over time, influencing the thinking of later naturalists including his own grandson Charles Darwin. His work matters because he helped establish evolutionary thinking in natural science before modern genetics, making him an important figure in the history of how we understand the development of living things.

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Born: 1731
Died: 1802
Works: 133

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The poetical works of Erasmus Darwin ...
Beauties of The botanic garden
Zoonomia
The loves of plants
Gli amori delle piante

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United Kingdom

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Discography

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Listeners: 1
Total plays: 2

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5 total works indexed

Extinction risk from climate change
· 2004 · cited 5,880x
Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults
· 2017 · cited 5,481x
The expression of the emotions in man and animals.
· 1872 · cited 5,438x
On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or, The preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life
· 1859 · cited 4,568x
Defining and Setting National Goals for Cardiovascular Health Promotion and Disease Reduction
· 2010 · cited 4,200x

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Quotes

“Fair Cʜᴜɴᴅᴀ smiles amid the burning waste,Her brow unturban’d, and her zone unbrac’d;Ten brother-youths with light umbrella’s shade,Or fan with busy hands the panting maid;Loose wave her locks, disclosing, as they break,The rising bosom and averted cheek;Clasp’d round her ivory neck with studs of goldFlows her thin vest in many a gauzy fold;O’er her light limbs the dim transparence plays,And the fair form, it seems to hide, betrays.”
“[Unitarianism is] a feather-bed to catch a falling Christian.”

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Wikidata facts

Image: Portrait of Erasmus Darwin by Joseph Wright of Derby (1792).jpg
Number of children: 14

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Commons category: Erasmus Darwin
date of birth: 1731-12-12
date of death: 1802-00-00
Commons gallery: Erasmus Darwin
name in native language: Erasmus Darwin
P12749: Schlettau

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Works in European collections

19 objects attributed to Erasmus Darwin, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Zoonomie ou Lois de la vie organique

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Erasmus Robert Darwin (12 December 1731 – 18 April 1802) was an English physician. One of the key thinkers of the Midlands Enlightenment, he was also a natural philosopher, physiologist, abolitionist, inventor, freemason, and poet.

His poems included much natural history, including a statement of evolution and the relatedness of all forms of life.