The Derby Philosophers: Science and Culture in British Urban Society, 1700-1850

by Paul Elliott

The Derby Philosophers focuses upon the activities of a group of Midland intellectuals that included the evolutionist and physician Erasmus Darwin, Rev. Thomas Gisborne the evangelical philosopher and poet, Robert Bage the novelist, Charles Sylvester the chemist and engineer, William George and his son Herbert Spencer, the internationally renowned evolutionist philosopher who coined the phrase 'survival of the fittest', and members of the Wedgwood...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526171767
• ISBN13: 9781526171764
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 304 Pages