Unbringing, 1731-1756; a young doctor of Lichfield, 1756-1760; prospering, 1761-1764; creating the lunar circle, 1765-1768; a great change, 1768-1771; interregnum, 1772-1774; fresh starts, 1775-1777; deaths, devices and desires, 1778-1780; newly wed at Radburn, 1781-1783; settled at Derby, 1784-1787; Renaissance, 1788-1790; eminence, 1791-1793; leading man of medicine, 1794-1796; confronting adversity, 1797-1799; downhill, 1800-1802; a pageant of life, 1803-1832; legacies, 1833-1998. Darwin family tree. appendices: Erasmus Darwin's writings; selected books and papers; acknowledgements.
Desmond King-Hele, who is the leading authority on Erasmus Darwin having studied his life and work for three decades, is a mathematician and physicist who is an expert on space research by satellite and in particular on the Earth's gravity field and the upper atmosphere, and worked for many years at the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society. He has written fifteen books including a standard critical work on Shelley, Shelley: His Thought and Work, and Erasmus Darwin and the Romantic Poets; and he has edited the Letters of Erasmus Darwin. His earlier life of Erasmus Darwin, Doctor of Revolution, will be superseded by this completely new book. He is also a poet.
'Few scientific lives have ever been so carefully and thoughtfully examined. There are no final words in history, but this is a biography for which the word definitive can be aptly applied.' Nature
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