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Category:	Baroque Science
Name:	Erasmus Darwin - Biology Series
Birth Year:	1731
Death Year:	1802
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Biography, Lectures, and Research Links:	Biography - Biology Series Blog Erasmus Darwin ! SEARCH NOW: by title by author Physician, poet, philosopher, botanist, naturalist and grandfather of Charles Darwin. Erasmus formulated one of the first formal theories on evolution in Zoonomia, or, The Laws of Organic Life (1794-1796). Many of his ideas were fully developed by his grandson sixty years later. [Adapted from U. C. Berkeley] The Great Books: Erasmus Darwin Please browse our Amazon list of titles about Erasmus Darwin. For rare and hard to find works we recommend our Alibris list of titles about Erasmus Darwin. Offer Comments, Questions or Suggestions! This database is maintained by Malaspina Great Books.
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This web page is part of a biographical database on Great Ideas. These are living ideas that have shaped, defined and directed world culture for over 2,500 years. By definition the Great Ideas are radical. As such they are sometimes misread, or distorted by popular simplifications. Understanding a Great Idea demands personal engagement. Our selection of Great Ideas is drawn from literature and philosophy, science, art, music, theatre, and cinema. We also include biographies of pivotal historical and religious figures, as well as contributions from women and other historically under-represented minorities. The result is an integrated multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary database built upon the framework of the always controversial Great Books Core List published in 1940 by the late Great Books Pioneer Mortimer Adler (1902-2001). Most of the works on that list are available in the 60 volume Great Books of the Western World.