Erasmus is a masculine given name. It is borne by:
Erasmus Robert Darwin was an English physician. One of the key thinkers of the Midlands Enlightenment, he was also a natural philosopher, physiologist, slave-trade abolitionist, inventor, and poet.
Robert Waring Darwin was an English medical doctor, who today is best known as the father of the naturalist Charles Darwin. He was a member of the influential Darwin–Wedgwood family.
McClellan is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
The Darwin–Wedgwood family are members of two connected families, each noted for particular prominent 18th-century figures: Erasmus Darwin, a physician and natural philosopher, and Josiah Wedgwood, a noted potter and founder of the eponymous Wedgwood and Sons pottery company. The Darwin and Wedgwood families were on friendly terms for much of their history and members intermarried, notably Charles Darwin, who married Emma Wedgwood.
Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802) was a physician and poet and grandfather of Charles Darwin
Robert Waring Darwin (1724–1816) of Elston Hall was an English botanist.
Phineas is a masculine given name. Notable people with the name include:
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Barlow is an English surname.
The Derby Philosophical Society was a club for gentlemen in Derby founded in 1783 by Erasmus Darwin. The club had many notable members and also offered the first institutional library in Derby that was available to some section of the public.
Gosse is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Hudson is an English surname. Notable people and characters with the surname include:
Isaac transliterated from Yitzhak, Yitzchok was one of the three patriarchs in the Hebrew Bible, whose story is told in the book of Genesis.
Darwin is a surname that is a modern spelling of Anglo-Saxon and Old English name Deorwine. Notable people with the surname include:
Waterhouse From old German / Dutch, meaning a house by water. Most common in the Derbyshire, Lancashire and Yorkshire regions Old English locational surname.
Wedge is the surname of:
Romanticism was an intellectual movement that arose in the late eighteenth century and continued through the nineteenth century. The movement had roots in the arts, literature, and science. Largely conceived as a reaction towards the extreme rationalism of the Enlightenment, it championed expressing emotions through aesthetic and emphasizing the transcendent allure of the natural world.