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Erasmus Darwin, M.D., F.R.S. : a biographical and iconographical note / J.W.T. Moody -- Nature, poetry and medicine in late eighteenth century England : a unified perspective of Erasmus Darwin / M.

ERASMUS DARWIN by Desmond King-Hele. 183 pages. Scribner. $3.95. DOCTOR DARWIN by Hesketh Pearson. 235 pages. Walker. $5. To the eyes of the British, eccentricity often looks like genius. In his own ...

William Bynum applauds a life of physician and scientific poet Erasmus Darwin, Charles's intriguing grandfather. Peter Medawar shared a Nobel prize in 1960 for his work on acquired immunological ...

I know Charles Darwin is the Darwin that gets most of the press (well, except maybe for that dolphin that was in that underwater Star Trek show), but I think we need to take a moment to appreciate his ...

A pockmarked face, a decided paunch and two missing front teeth notwithstanding, renowned physician Erasmus Darwin was, as Nebula Award winner Sheffield illustrates here, not only arguably the ...

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ERASMUS DARWIN wrote in coupled rhyme/To please the learned public of his time./To read him now, with later, cooler eye,/Is somewhat harder, but it’s worth a try. After reading this tribute to the ...

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