Whence countless groups of vegetation spring, And breathing realms of fin and feet and wing. This verse demonstrates the prescience of the imaginative arts, how poetic dreams can foreshadow empirical ...

Not that Darwin, the other Darwin. Erasmus Darwin was Charles Darwin’s grandfather. A doctor and naturalist in his own right as well. He also was a poet and penned down many verses in his life, often ...

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 ...

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You are in: Stoke & Staffordshire > History > Local Heroes > Erasmus Darwin Erasmus Darwin house Erasmus Darwin was a doctor, poet and philosopher - one of the leading intellectuals of 18th century ...