Sujet
Erasmus Darwin, English physician and naturalist, 1795. Artist: Unknown
Légende
Erasmus Darwin, English physician and naturalist, 1795. Darwin (1731-1802) practiced medicine at Lichfield for 20 years from 1757. In his Zoonomia, or, The Laws of Organic Life (1794-1796), he put forward a formal theory of evolution. He was the grandfather of Charles Darwin and Francis Galton, and was a member of the Lunar Society, a dining club of intellectuals, scientists and businessmen from the Birmingham region, including Matthew Boulton, James Watt, John Wilkinson, Joseph Priestley, Richard Edgeworth and Josiah Wedgwood. From The European Magazine. (London, 1795).
Oxford Science Archive
Date
1790
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images
Notre référence
HRM19B65_109
Model release
Non
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
50,0Mo (3,4Mo) / 29,5cm x 42,4cm / 3485 x 5011 (300dpi)