Erasmus Darwin [ Science / Art and Literature / Philosophy ]
… Image Joseph Wright of Derby, ‘An Experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump by Joseph Wright of Derby’, Wikimedia Commons, NG 725, 1768. Image Joseph Wright of … of changes. Erasmus Darwin investigated the origin of sociability in primitive species through speculative science and experimentation. By observing micro-organisms such as the volvox or the polypus, he supposed that the affection of a …
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