English physician and poet Erasmus Darwin was born on this day in 1731! Here is one of his major works, the two part poem "The Botanical Garden" (1789, 1791). In his poetry, he offered a view of evolution that influenced his grandson Charles.
Charles wrote and published a short biography of him. Here it is, published by Charles' London publisher John Murray, which published "Origin of Species" and all his several subsequent books.
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