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.
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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
Exuberant, bantering, unconventional Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) strides across these pages like a force of nature. This engaging, totally unstuffy biography of the prolific inventor, physician, poet ...