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Title

The genius of Erasmus Darwin / edited by C.U.M. Smith, Robert Arnott.

Publication

Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Co., c2005.

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Additional Authors

• Smith, C. U. M. (Christopher Upham Murray)
• Arnott, Robert, 1951-

Description

xvii, 416 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Science, technology, and culture, 1700-1945

Subject

• Darwin, Erasmus, 1731-1802 > Knowledge and learning > Congresses
• Darwin, Erasmus, 1731-1802 > Influence > Congresses

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-403) and index.

Contents

Setting the scene / Jonathan Powers -- Prologue : Catching up with Erasmus Darwin in the new century / Desmond King-Hele -- Physicians and physic in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Lichfield / Denis Gibbs -- Dr. Erasmus Darwin MD FRS ( 1731-1802) : England's greatest physician? / G.C. Cook -- William Paley (1743-1805) and James Parkinson (1755-1824) : two peri-Erasmatic thinkers (and several others) / Christopher Gardner-Thorpe -- The vertiginous philosophers : Erasmus Darwin and William Charles Wells on vertigo / Nicholas J. Wade -- The Antipodes and Erasmus Darwin : the place of Erasmus Darwin in the heritage of Australian literature and biology / John Pearn -- Erasmus Darwin on human reproductive generation : placing heredity within historical and Zoonomian contexts / Philip K. Wilson -- All from fibres : Erasmus Darwin's evolutionary psychobiology / C.U.M. Smith -- Two special doctors : Erasmus Darwin and Luigi Galvani / Raffaella Simili -- But what about the women? The Lunar Society's attitude to women and science, and to the education of girls / Jenny Uglow -- The Derbyshire 'Darwinians' : the persistence of Erasmus Darwin's influence on a British provincial literary and scientific community, c. 1780-1850 / Paul Elliott -- Designing better steering for carriages (and cars); with a glance at other inventions / Desmond King-Hele -- Mama and papa : the ancestors of modern-day speech science / Philip J.B. Jackson -- Negative and positive images : Erasmus Darwin, Tom Wedgwood and the origins of photography / Alan Barnes -- Erasmus Darwin's contributions to the geological sciences / H.S. Torrens -- The air man / Desmond King-Hele -- Erasmus Darwin, work and health / Tim Carter -- The progress of society? Darwin's early drafts for The temple of nature / Martin Priestman -- The poet as pathologist : myth and medicine in Erasmus Darwin's epic poetry / Stuart Harris -- 'Another and the same' : nature and human beings in Erasmus Darwin's doctrines of love and imagination / Maurizio Valsania -- Epilogue : 'One great slaughter-house the warring world' : living in revolutionary times / David Knight -- Coda : Midlands memorabilia / Nicholas Redman -- Appendix : The creation of the Erasmus Darwin Foundation and Erasmus Darwin House / Tony Barnard.

Call Number

JSE 05-1145

ISBN

0754636712 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2004001762

OCLC

54461160

Title

The genius of Erasmus Darwin / edited by C.U.M. Smith, Robert Arnott.

Imprint

Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Co., c2005.

Series

Science, technology, and culture, 1700-1945

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-403) and index.

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Added Author

Smith, C. U. M. (Christopher Upham Murray)

Arnott, Robert, 1951-

Research Call Number

JSE 05-1145