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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      August 2011
      July 2009
      ISBN:
      9780511704024
      9781108005494
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511704024
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      (297 x 210 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.46kg, 616 Pages
      • Subjects:
      History of Science, Life Sciences, Evolutionary Biology, History of Medicine, General Science
      Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - History of Medicine
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    History of Science, Life Sciences, Evolutionary Biology, History of Medicine, General Science
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    Cambridge Library Collection - History of Medicine
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    Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802) is remembered not only as the grandfather of Charles but as a pioneering scientist in his own right. A friend and correspondent of Josiah Wedgwood, Joseph Priestley and Matthew Boulton, he practised medicine in Lichfield, but also wrote prolifically on scientific subjects. He organised the translation of Linnaeus from Latin into English prose, coining many plant names in the process, and also wrote a version in verse, The Loves of Plants. The aim of his Zoonomia, published in two volumes (1794–6), is to 'reduce the facts belonging to animal life into classes, orders, genera, and species; and by comparing them with each other, to unravel the theory of diseases'. The first volume describes human physiology, especially importance of motion, both voluntary and involuntary; the second is a detailed description of the symptoms of, and the cures for, diseases, categorised according to his physiological classes.

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