David Hume and Erasmus Darwin's Zoonomia.

The botanic garden, Erasmus Darwin, 1791

ERASMUS DARWIN, The botanic garden, Erasmus Darwin, 1791, London, Scolar Press, 1973, 4to, pp. viii, xii, 214, 128, v-vii, 184, illus., £10.00. Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802), grandfather of Charles, was an outstanding Midlands physician, and, in addition, a prominent scientist, inventor, and founder of the Birmingham Lunar Society. However, he also enjoyed great fame as a poet and this book presen...

Insects, hygiene and history

ERASMUS DARWIN, The botanic garden, Erasmus Darwin, 1791, London, Scolar Press, 1973, 4to, pp. viii, xii, 214, 128, v-vii, 184, illus., £10.00. Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802), grandfather of Charles, was an outstanding Midlands physician, and, in addition, a prominent scientist, inventor, and founder of the Birmingham Lunar Society. However, he also enjoyed great fame as a poet and this book presen...

Rheumatic fever in America and Britain: a biological, epidemiological, and medical history

This is a book swarming with anachronism among which are a complaint about bad spelling allegedly common at the time (p. 9), the observations that Darwin's work reveals his potential to be the "first male feminist" (p. 167) (a particular obsession to which King-Hele often returns), that Darwin was "ahead of his time" in seizing on the rapid growth rates of cannabis which, ifmade into paper, mig...

David Hume on Banking and Hoarding

Darwin

ADRIAN DESMOND and JAMES MOORE, Darwin, London, Michael Joseph Ltd, 1991, pp. xvii, 773, illus., £20.00 (0-7181-3430-3). Charles Darwin has attracted many biographers fascinated by the paradox of the wealthy and industrious Victorian invalid who, immured in rural isolation, reluctantly destroyed the world-picture of the wealthy Victorians. Adrian Desmond and James Moore, in their lengthy new bi...