Erasmus Darwin - Advanced Quiz
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- What does Erasmus Darwin's adopted motto 'E Conchis Omnia' translate as?
- Which famous novel is Darwin thought to have inspired through his scientific speculations based on Galvani's discovery that muscle in a dissected frog contracted when subjected to an electrical current?
- What was the name of Erasmus' second wife with whom he moved to Derbyshire in 1781?
- In which year was Darwin's 1300-page manuscript 'Zoonomia' first published?
- From which poem does the following line come from? :
'Organic life beneath the shoreless waves
Was born and nurs'd in ocean's pearly cave'
- On which street in Lichfield is the Erasmus Darwin House situated?
- Who said of Erasmus Darwin that he had 'perhaps a greater range of knowledge than any other man in Europe'?
- Which Canon of Lichfield Cathedral was one of Erasmus Darwin's most vocal critics?
- Why did Darwin refuse to patent any of his inventions?
- Which of Erasmus' fellow members of the Lunar Society is accredited with discovering oxygen?
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