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Book The Collected Writings of Erasmus Darwin

Download or read book The Collected Writings of Erasmus Darwin written by Erasmus Darwin and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Collected Writings of Erasmus Darwin

Download or read book The Collected Writings of Erasmus Darwin written by Erasmus Darwin and published by . This book was released on 1801 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Collected Writings Of Erasmus Darwin

Download or read book Collected Writings Of Erasmus Darwin written by Erasmus Darwin and published by Thoemmes. This book was released on 2004-01-08 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) was an accomplished scientist and inventor, one of the most successful doctors in eighteenth-century England, and a best-selling poet. He anticipated a theory of biological evolution a full 70 years before his grandson Charles's On the Origin of Species, and his poetry had a marked influence on Wordsworth and other Romantics. This rare collection--beautifully illustrated by William Blake, Henry Fuseli, and others--is newly introduced by Martin Priestman, and will be of great interest to historians of science and literary specialists.

Book The Collected Letters of Erasmus Darwin

Download or read book The Collected Letters of Erasmus Darwin written by Erasmus Darwin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2006, this book is a unique collection of the letters of Erasmus Darwin, revealing his amazing variety of talents.

Book The Temple of Nature Or The Origin of Society

Download or read book The Temple of Nature Or The Origin of Society written by Erasmus Darwin and published by . This book was released on 1803 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Loves of the Plants

Download or read book The Loves of the Plants written by Erasmus Darwin and published by . This book was released on 1791 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Age of Analogy

Download or read book The Age of Analogy written by Devin Griffiths and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2016-10-28 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did literature shape nineteenth-century science? Erasmus Darwin and his grandson, Charles, were the two most important evolutionary theorists of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. Although their ideas and methods differed, both Darwins were prolific and inventive writers: Erasmus composed several epic poems and scientific treatises, while Charles is renowned both for his collected journals (now titled The Voyage of the Beagle) and for his masterpiece, The Origin of Species. In The Age of Analogy, Devin Griffiths argues that the Darwins’ writing style was profoundly influenced by the poets, novelists, and historians of their era. The Darwins, like other scientists of the time, labored to refashion contemporary literary models into a new mode of narrative analysis that could address the contingent world disclosed by contemporary natural science. By employing vivid language and experimenting with a variety of different genres, these writers gave rise to a new relational study of antiquity, or “comparative historicism,” that emerged outside of traditional histories. It flourished instead in literary forms like the realist novel and the elegy, as well as in natural histories that explored the continuity between past and present forms of life. Nurtured by imaginative cross-disciplinary descriptions of the past—from the historical fiction of Sir Walter Scott and George Eliot to the poetry of Alfred Tennyson—this novel understanding of history fashioned new theories of natural transformation, encouraged a fresh investment in social history, and explained our intuition that environment shapes daily life. Drawing on a wide range of archival evidence and contemporary models of scientific and literary networks, The Age of Analogy explores the critical role analogies play within historical and scientific thinking. Griffiths also presents readers with a new theory of analogy that emphasizes language's power to foster insight into nature and human society. The first comparative treatment of the Darwins’ theories of history and their profound contribution to the study of both natural and human systems, this book will fascinate students and scholars of nineteenth-century British literature and the history of science.

Book The Botanic Garden

Download or read book The Botanic Garden written by Erasmus Darwin and published by . This book was released on 1791 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Charles and Emma

Download or read book Charles and Emma written by Deborah Heiligman and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2009-01-06 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species, his revolutionary tract on evolution and the fundamental ideas involved, in 1859. Nearly 150 years later, the theory of evolution continues to create tension between the scientific and religious communities. Challenges about teaching the theory of evolution in schools occur annually all over the country. This same debate raged within Darwin himself, and played an important part in his marriage: his wife, Emma, was quite religious, and her faith gave Charles a lot to think about as he worked on a theory that continues to spark intense debates. Deborah Heiligman's new biography of Charles Darwin is a thought-provoking account of the man behind evolutionary theory: how his personal life affected his work and vice versa. The end result is an engaging exploration of history, science, and religion for young readers. Charles and Emma is a 2009 National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature.

Book The Essential Writings of Erasmus Darwin

Download or read book The Essential Writings of Erasmus Darwin written by Erasmus Darwin and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: