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Erasmus Robert Darwin was an English physician. One of the key thinkers of the Midlands Enlightenment, he was also a natural philosopher, physiologist, abolitionist, inventor, freemason, and poet.
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Born 12 December 1731 · Died 18 April 1802 · Q234050
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works. Darwin also wrote Economy of Vegetation, and together the two were published as The Botanic Garden. Among other writers he influenced were Anna Seward and Maria Jacson. Zoonomia Darwin
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“I have just heard that there are muzzles or gags made at Birmingham for the slaves in our islands. If this be true, and such an instrument could be exhibited by a speaker in the house of commons, it might have great effect.”
“works. Darwin also wrote Economy of Vegetation, and together the two were published as The Botanic Garden. Among other writers he influenced were Anna Seward and Maria Jacson. Zoonomia Darwin”
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“The 1997 Wilkins Lecture: Erasmus Darwin, The Lunaticks and Evolution”
Published “The expression of the emotions in man and animals.” — cited 5,506 times.
Published “On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or, The preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life” — cited 4,615 times.
Referred to Erasmus and his books and offered this evaluation,
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Died 1802-04-18.
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Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (1761).
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Studied at St John's College (1750).
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Born 1731-12-12.
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