Erasmus Darwin: Sex, Science, and Serendipity

by Patricia Fara

Book Overview

Dr Erasmus Darwin seemed an innocuous Midlands physician, a respectable stalwart of eighteenth-century society. But there was another side to him. Botanist, inventor, Lunar inventor and popular poet, Darwin was internationally renowned for breathtakingly long poems explaining his theories about sex and science. Yet he become a target for the political classes, the victim of a sustained and vitriolic character assassination by London's most savage...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199582661
• ISBN13: 9780199582662
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.6" x 8.6"