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Erasmus Darwin

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Erasmus Darwin 1731-1802, English physician and poet. During most of his life he practiced medicine in Lichfield and cultivated a botanical garden. He was a prominent member of the Lichfield literary group, which included Anna Seward and Thomas Day . In a long poem, The Botanic Garden (1789-91), Darwin expounded the botanical system of Linnaeus . His Zoonomia (1794-96), explaining organic life according to evolutionary principles, anticipates later theories. He was the grandfather of Charles Darwin and of Francis Galton .

Bibliography: See biography by D. King-Hele (1964).


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