Encyclopedia - Erasmus Alvey Darwin: Encyclopedia Ii - Erasmus Alvey Darwin - Education
He attended Shrewsbury School 1815–1822 as a boarder, and as a frail and studious boy his interest was in books and plants rather than ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cambridge Apostles: Encyclopedia - Cambridge Apostles
The Cambridge Apostles, also known as the Cambridge Conversazione Society, is an elite intellectual secret society at Cambridge Universit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Darwin — Wedgwood Family: Encyclopedia Ii - Darwin — Wedgwood Family - The First Generation
Darwin — Wedgwood family - Josiah Wedgwood. Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795) was a noted potter and a friend of Erasmus Darwin; in 1780 on...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Darwin From Orchids To Variation: Encyclopedia Ii - Darwin From Orchids To Variation - Changing Times
Meanwhile, as Darwin worked from his sickbed his friends continued with debates. Asa Gray sent news of the American civil war, but to Dar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Emma Darwin: Encyclopedia Ii - Emma Darwin - Biography
Emma Wedgwood was born in 1808 at the family estate of Maer Hall, Maer, Staffordshire, the youngest of six children of Josiah Wedgwood II...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Harriet Martineau: Encyclopedia Ii - Harriet Martineau - London And The United States
In 1832 she moved to London, where she numbered among her acquaintances Henry Hallam, Henry Hart Milman, Thomas Malthus, Monckton Milnes,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Darwin From Descent Of Man To Emotions: Encyclopedia Ii - Darwin From Descent Of Man To Emotions - Descent Of Man
The book The Reign of Law by the Duke of Argyll argued that beauty with no obvious utility, such as exotic birds' plumage, proved divine ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cambridge Apostles: Encyclopedia Ii - Cambridge Apostles - Activities And Membership
The society is essentially a debating club. Meetings are held once a week, traditionally on Saturday evenings, during which one member gi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Erasmus Darwin: Encyclopedia Ii - Erasmus Darwin - Zoönomia
His most important scientific work is his Zoönomia (1794–1796), which contains a system of pathology, and a treatise on "generation," ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Darwin From Orchids To Variation: Encyclopedia Ii - Darwin From Orchids To Variation - Background
Darwin's ideas developed rapidly from the return in 1836 of the Voyage of the Beagle. By December 1838 he had developed the principles of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Darwin From Descent Of Man To Emotions: Encyclopedia Ii - Darwin From Descent Of Man To Emotions - Emotions
Through the spring Darwin pressed on with The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, pointing to shared evolution in contrast to ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Darwin From Orchids To Variation: Encyclopedia Ii - Darwin From Orchids To Variation - Ape-men
Lyell was troubled both by Huxley's belligerence and by the question of ape ancestry, but got little sympathy from Darwin who teased him ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Harriet Martineau: Encyclopedia Ii - Harriet Martineau - Early Life
Martineau was born in Norwich, where her father was a manufacturer. The family was of Huguenot extraction (see James Martineau) and profe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Harriet Martineau: Encyclopedia Ii - Harriet Martineau - Mesmerism
Miss Martineau edited a volume of Letters on the Laws of Man's Nature and Development, published in March 1851. Its form is that of a cor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Harriet Martineau: Encyclopedia Ii - Harriet Martineau - Ambleside
In 1844 Miss Martineau underwent a course of mesmerism, and in a few months was restored to health. She eventually published an account o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Darwin From Descent Of Man To Emotions: Encyclopedia Ii - Darwin From Descent Of Man To Emotions - 6th Edition Of The Origin
Mivart wrote wishing "with all my heart that we did not differ so widely", but challenging Darwin to debate the basic metaphysics underly...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Darwin From Orchids To Variation: Encyclopedia Ii - Darwin From Orchids To Variation - Orchids
For July and August 1861 they took their daughter Henrietta to the seaside village of Torquay. Darwin was diverted by spending hours watc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Darwin From Descent Of Man To Emotions: Encyclopedia Ii - Darwin From Descent Of Man To Emotions - Family And Research
Despite Darwin's concerns that his children were weakened as his wife Emma Darwin was his cousin or had inherited his own illness, around...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Erasmus Darwin: Encyclopedia Ii - Erasmus Darwin - Inventions
He was in inventor of several devices, though did not patent any of them. He believed this would damage his reputation as a doctor, and e...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Erasmus Darwin: Encyclopedia Ii - Erasmus Darwin - Family Tree
Erasmus Darwin along with his nephew-in-law Samuel Fox were members of the influential Derby Philosophical Society through which their e...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Erasmus Darwin: Encyclopedia Ii - Erasmus Darwin - Big Bang And Big Crunch Cosmological Theories
Contemporary literature dated the cosmological theories of the Big Bang and Big Crunch to the 19th and 20th centuries, however Erasmus Da...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cambridge Apostles: Encyclopedia Ii - Cambridge Apostles - The Cambridge Spy Ring
The Apostles were once again thrust into prominence following the exposure of Cambridge spy ring. At least four men with access to the to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Darwin From Descent Of Man To Emotions: Encyclopedia Ii - Darwin From Descent Of Man To Emotions - Background
In the aftermath of the publication of On the Origin of Species through Natural Selection in 1859, Charles Darwin's allies Charles Lyell,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Darwin — Wedgwood Family: Encyclopedia Ii - Darwin — Wedgwood Family - The Second Generation
Darwin — Wedgwood family - Robert Darwin. The son of Erasmus Darwin, Robert Darwin was a noted physician from Shrewsbury, whose own i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Darwin — Wedgwood Family: Encyclopedia Ii - Darwin — Wedgwood Family - The Sixth Generation
Darwin — Wedgwood family - Richard Keynes. Professor Richard Keynes FRS (b. 1919) is a British physiologist. Darwin — Wedgwood fam...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Darwin — Wedgwood Family: Encyclopedia Ii - Darwin — Wedgwood Family - The Third Generation
Darwin — Wedgwood family - Charles Darwin. The most prominent member of the family, Charles Darwin, proposed the first coherent theor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Darwin — Wedgwood Family: Encyclopedia Ii - Darwin — Wedgwood Family - The Fifth Generation
Darwin — Wedgwood family - Charles Galton Darwin. Charles Galton Darwin 1887-1962 was the son of George Howard Darwin (see above) and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Darwin — Wedgwood Family: Encyclopedia Ii - Darwin — Wedgwood Family - The Fourth Generation
Darwin — Wedgwood family - George Howard Darwin. George Howard Darwin (1845–1912) was an astronomer and mathematician. He married M...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Darwin — Wedgwood Family: Encyclopedia Ii - Darwin — Wedgwood Family - Other Notables From The Same Period
Darwin — Wedgwood family - William Darwin Fox. The Rev. William Darwin Fox (1805-1880) was a second cousin of Charles Darwin and an e...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Erasmus Alvey Darwin: Encyclopedia Ii - Erasmus Alvey Darwin - Uncle Ras
While Charles Darwin's illness made him increasingly reclusive after his move to Downe, he would still visit Erasmus as one of his relati...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Erasmus Alvey Darwin: Encyclopedia Ii - Erasmus Alvey Darwin - Retirement
In the summer of 1829 he gave up medicine as his father Doctor Robert Waring Darwin considered that Erasmus's "delicate frame" could not ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Erasmus Alvey Darwin: Encyclopedia Ii - Erasmus Alvey Darwin - Miss Martineau
In May 1834 Charles got a letter from his sisters recommending Poor Laws and Paupers Illustrated in pamphlet sized parts by the fiercely ...   » Read the article