Fara Patricia (Director Of Studies In Hps Fellow Clare College Cambridge)
Fara Patricia (Director Of Studies In Hps Fellow Clare College Cambridge) - Erasmus Darwin Sex Science And Serendipity - Paperback
Fara Patricia (Director Of Studies In Hps Fellow Clare College Cambridge) - Erasmus Darwin Sex Science And Serendipity - Paperback
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Description: Dr Erasmus Darwin seemed an innocuous Midlands physician a respectable stalwart of eighteenth - century society. But there was another side to him. Botanist physician Lunar inventor and popular poet Darwin was internationally renowned for extraordinary poems explaining his theories about sex and science. Yet he became a target for the political classes the victim of a sustained and vitriolic character assassination by London's most savage satirists. Intrigued prize - winning historian Patricia Fara set out to investigate why Darwin had provoked such fierce intellectual and political reaction. Inviting her readers to accompany her she embarked on what turned out to be a circuitous and serendipitous journey. Her research led her to discover a man who possessed according to Samuel Taylor Coleridge 'perhaps a greater range of knowledge than any other man in Europe. His evolutionary ideas influenced his grandson Charles were banned by the Vatican and scandalized his reactionary critics. But for modern readers he shines out as an impassioned Enlightenment reformer who championed the abolition of slavery the education of women and the optimistic ideals of the French Revolution. As she tracks down her quarry Patricia Fara uncovers a ferment of dangerous ideas that terrified the establishment inspired the Romantics and laid the ground for Victorian battles between faith and science.
Title: Erasmus Darwin Sex Science And Serendipity
Author(s): Fara Patricia (Director Of Studies In Hps Fellow Clare College Cambridge)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198848547
Pages: 336 Pages, 8 Black And White Illustrations
Publication Date: 8/13/2020
Category: History Of Science
Description: Dr Erasmus Darwin seemed an innocuous Midlands physician a respectable stalwart of eighteenth - century society. But there was another side to him. Botanist physician Lunar inventor and popular poet Darwin was internationally renowned for extraordinary poems explaining his theories about sex and science. Yet he became a target for the political classes the victim of a sustained and vitriolic character assassination by London's most savage satirists. Intrigued prize - winning historian Patricia Fara set out to investigate why Darwin had provoked such fierce intellectual and political reaction. Inviting her readers to accompany her she embarked on what turned out to be a circuitous and serendipitous journey. Her research led her to discover a man who possessed according to Samuel Taylor Coleridge 'perhaps a greater range of knowledge than any other man in Europe. His evolutionary ideas influenced his grandson Charles were banned by the Vatican and scandalized his reactionary critics. But for modern readers he shines out as an impassioned Enlightenment reformer who championed the abolition of slavery the education of women and the optimistic ideals of the French Revolution. As she tracks down her quarry Patricia Fara uncovers a ferment of dangerous ideas that terrified the establishment inspired the Romantics and laid the ground for Victorian battles between faith and science.
Title: Erasmus Darwin Sex Science And Serendipity
Author(s): Fara Patricia (Director Of Studies In Hps Fellow Clare College Cambridge)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198848547
Pages: 336 Pages, 8 Black And White Illustrations
Publication Date: 8/13/2020
Category: History Of Science
