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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Life of Erasmus Darwindi Charles Darwin, Ernst Krause
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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. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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I think, he constructed some theoretical ground-work for theory of evolution, through his work Zoonomia.
I wanted to read letters of Erasmus, his way of thought. I got a glimpse of his thought through his letters.
The Book starts with Erasmus’s genealogy and history. I think you can ignore this part unless you are a genealogist and tracing Charles Darwin’s genealogy for affirming eugenics.
I think, from pages, 31-65 is the meat of the book.
-Few of the Books, his comments on them.
-Inventions, mostly his mechanical inventions.
-Conversation, letters to his son and Josiah Wedgwood (English Industrialist)
-Intellectual powers, vividness of his imagination seems to be one of his pre-eminent characteristic.
This led to originality in his thoughts, prophetic spirit in science and mechanical arts.
His over powering tendency to theorize and generalize.
His value of experiments and use of hypothesis confirmed his spirit of philosopher.
Out of all this, his energy of mind was most eminent.
-Religious Beliefs, it says he was a Theist, but people accused him of Atheism
-Moral Qualities.
I would recommend this if you’re interested in biographies. This is quick and short biography.
Deus Vult,
Gottfried
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