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Charles Darwin's 'The Life of Erasmus Darwin' (Paperback)
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Charles Darwin's 'The Life of Erasmus Darwin' (Paperback)
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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.
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