The genius of Erasmus Darwin
By: edited by C.U.M. Smith,  Robert Arnott.
Contributors: Smith, C. U. M.; Arnott, Robert, 1951-
Series: Science, technology, and culture, 1700-1945; Science, technology, and culture, 1700-1945
Publisher: Ashgate Pub. Co.
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hampshire, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
Subjects: Darwin, Erasmus, -- 1731-1802 -- Knowledge and learning -- Congresses; Darwin, Erasmus, -- 1731-1802 -- Influence -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-403) and index.
Table of contents: title: Setting the scene / Jonathan Powers; title: Prologue : Catching up with Erasmus Darwin in the new century / Desmond King-Hele; title: Physicians and physic in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Lichfield / Denis Gibbs; title: Dr. Erasmus Darwin MD FRS ( 1731-1802) : England's greatest physician? / G.C. Cook; title: William Paley (1743-1805) and James Parkinson (1755-1824) : two peri-Erasmatic thinkers (and several others) / Christopher Gardner-Thorpe; title: The vertiginous philosophers : Erasmus Darwin and William Charles Wells on vertigo / Nicholas J. Wade; title: The Antipodes and Erasmus Darwin : the place of Erasmus Darwin in the heritage of Australian literature and biology / John Pearn; title: Erasmus Darwin on human reproductive generation : placing heredity within historical and Zoonomian contexts / Philip K. Wilson; title: All from fibres : Erasmus Darwin's evolutionary psychobiology / C.U.M. Smith; title: Two special doctors : Erasmus Darwin and Luigi Galvani / Raffaella Simili; title: But what about the women? The Lunar Society's attitude to women and science, and to the education of girls / Jenny Uglow; title: The Derbyshire 'Darwinians' : the persistence of Erasmus Darwin's influence on a British provincial literary and scientific community, c. 1780-1850 / Paul Elliott; title: Designing better steering for carriages (and cars); with a glance at other inventions / Desmond King-Hele; title: Mama and papa : the ancestors of modern-day speech science / Philip J.B. Jackson; title: Negative and positive images : Erasmus Darwin, Tom Wedgwood and the origins of photography / Alan Barnes; title: Erasmus Darwin's contributions to the geological sciences / H.S. Torrens; title: The air man / Desmond King-Hele; title: Erasmus Darwin, work and health / Tim Carter; title: The progress of society? Darwin's early drafts for The temple of nature / Martin Priestman; title: The poet as pathologist : myth and medicine in Erasmus Darwin's epic poetry / Stuart Harris; title: 'Another and the same' : nature and human beings in Erasmus Darwin's doctrines of love and imagination / Maurizio Valsania; title: Epilogue : 'One great slaughter-house the warring world' : living in revolutionary times / David Knight; title: Coda : Midlands memorabilia / Nicholas Redman; title: Appendix : The creation of the Erasmus Darwin Foundation and Erasmus Darwin House / Tony Barnard.