TY - BOOK ID - 77860557 TI - The life of Erasmus Darwin AU - Darwin, Charles AU - King-Hele, Desmond PY - 2003 SN - 110713398X 1280434198 9786610434190 0511177933 0511021100 0511148445 0511330340 0511541449 0511045743 9780511021107 0521815266 9780521815260 9780511045745 9780511541445 6610434190 9781280434198 9780511177934 9780511148446 9780511330346 9780521298742 0521298741 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Naturalists KW - Physicians KW - Darwin, Erasmus, KW - Darvin, EĢrazm, KW - Darwin, Erasmus KW - Darwin, Erasme UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77860557 AB - Charles Darwin's book about his grandfather, The Life of Erasmus Darwin, is curiously fascinating. Before publication in 1879, it was shortened by 16%, with several of the cuts directed at its most provocative parts. The cutter, with Charles's permission, was his daughter Henrietta - an example of the strong hidden hand of meek-seeming Victorian women. Originally published in 2003, this first unabridged edition, edited by Desmond King-Hele, includes all that Charles originally intended, the cuts being restored and printed in italics. Erasmus Darwin was one of the leading intellectuals of the eighteenth century. He was a respected physician, a well-known poet, a keen mechanical inventor, and a founding member of the influential Lunar Society. He also possessed an amazing insight into the many branches of physical and biological science. Most notably, he adopted what we now call biological evolution as his theory of life, 65 years prior to Charles Darwin's Origin of Species. ER -