Erasmus Darwin
Sex, Science, and Serendipity
(Sprache: Englisch)
A tour of the late eighteenth century English Enlightenment in the company of Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of Charles, who (aside from his poetry and other scientific endeavours) was expounding theories of evolution years before the birth of his more famous grandson.
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A tour of the late eighteenth century English Enlightenment in the company of Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of Charles, who (aside from his poetry and other scientific endeavours) was expounding theories of evolution years before the birth of his more famous grandson.
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Dr Erasmus Darwin seemed an innocuous Midlands physician, a respectable stalwart of eighteenth-century society. But there was another side to him. Botanist, physician, Lunar inventor and popular poet, Darwin was internationally renowned for extraordinary poems explaining his theories about sex and science. Yet he became a target for the political classes, the victim of a sustained and vitriolic character assassination by London's most savage satirists.
Intrigued, prize-winning historian Patricia Fara set out to investigate why Darwin had provoked such fierce intellectual and political reaction. Inviting her readers to accompany her, she embarked on what turned out to be a circuitous and serendipitous journey.
Her research led her to discover a man who possessed, according to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 'perhaps a greater range of knowledge than any other man in Europe.' His evolutionary ideas influenced his grandson Charles, were banned by the Vatican, and scandalized his reactionary critics. But for modern readers he shines out as an impassioned Enlightenment reformer who championed the abolition of slavery, the education of women, and the optimistic ideals of the French Revolution.
As she tracks down her quarry, Patricia Fara uncovers a ferment of dangerous ideas that terrified the establishment, inspired the Romantics, and laid the ground for Victorian battles between faith and science.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Erasmus Darwin “
- Introduction: Serendipity
- The Love of Triangles
- 1: Erasmus Darwin
- 2: 'The Loves of the Triangles'
- 3: A Triangle of Poets
- The Loves of the Plants
- 4: The Loves of the Plants
- 5: Women on Trial
- 6: Seraglios
- The Economy of Vegetation
- 7: The Lunar Society
- 8: The Economy of Vegetation
- 9: The Triangular Slave Trade
- The Temple of Nature
- 10: Defining People
- 11: The Temple of Nature
- 12: Origins
- Conclusion: Reputations and Reflections
- Appendix: 'The Loves of the Triangles'
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Autoren-Porträt von Patricia Fara
Patricia Fara lectures in the history of science at Cambridge University, where she is a Fellow of Clare College. She is the President of the British Society for the History of Science, and her prize-winning book, Science: A Four Thousand Year History (2009), has been translated into nine languages. In addition to many academic publications, her popular works include Newton: The Making of Genius (2002), An Entertainment for Angels (2002), Sex, Botany and Empire (2003), Pandora's Breeches: Women, Science and Power in the Enlightenment (2004) and A Lab of One's Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War (2018). An experienced public lecturer, Patricia Fara appears regularly in TV documentaries and radio programmes such as In our Time. She also contributes articles and reviews to many journals, including History Today, BBC History, New Scientist, Nature and the Times Literary Supplement.Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Patricia Fara
- 2020, 336 Seiten, Maße: 13,5 x 21,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0198848544
- ISBN-13: 9780198848547
- Erscheinungsdatum: 22.06.2020
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Erasmus Darwin [...] subverts the genre, along the way making it the most enjoyable relatively heavy-duty history of science book I've ever read ... this is a wonderful way to make the process of exploring the history of science come alive. Brian Clegg, Popular Science
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