Erasmus Darwin
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| Who wrote 'A new song in praise of two young hunters' about an adventure when Darwin was 8? | show 🗑
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| With whom was Erasmus playing when a gunpowder explosion injured him? | show 🗑
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| With what were Darwin and George Cavendish playing that caused Darwin an injury? | show 🗑
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| Which disease did Darwin catch that left his skin marked? | show 🗑
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| To which school friend did Darwin write a long letter in 1749 signed Eras D'Arwin? | show 🗑
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| How did Darwin sigh his schoolboy letter to Samuel Pegge? | show 🗑
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| Upon leaving school Darwin wrote a thank you letter to Burrow in which style? | show 🗑
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| To which college did Robert, John and Erasmus all attend? | show 🗑
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| Darwin's first published poe was a 92 line elegy for which man? | show 🗑
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| To what did Darwin compare Frederick Prince of Wales in verse? | show 🗑
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| The London Magazine printed a poem by Darwin about which inventor of a form of shorthand? | show 🗑
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| When Gurney reprinted Darwin's poem about him, to whom did he credit the poem? | show 🗑
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| What was the name of the poem that Darwin wrote to mark the marriage of his sister Elizabeth to Thomas Hall? | show 🗑
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| Where did Darwin go to hear lectures by Dr George Baker? | show 🗑
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| Noah Thomas proposed Darwin for election to which body? | show 🗑
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| In which poem did Darwin write humorously about being a Cambridge student? | show 🗑
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| The only shorthand notes existing from Darwin's time at Edinburgh were from a lecture by Dr Altson onwhich topic? | show 🗑
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| Who angered Darwin for charging a labourer called Marlow 6 guineas for an operation? | show 🗑
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| To whom did Darwin write of Egyptian mummies, furnaces with fermenting liquor and coaches with wheels with spring rims? | show 🗑
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| Darwin arrived in Lichfield with a letter of recommendation from his brother in law rev Thomas hall to which woman? | show 🗑
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| Thomas Seward had two daughters, what were their names? | show 🗑
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| Which neighbour of Darwin's wrote "memoirs of the life of Dr Darwin"? | show 🗑
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| What paper of Darwin's was printed in the philosophical transactions of the royal society in 1857? | show 🗑
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| Who published his Philosophical Essays in 1761 in response to Darwin's disproving of his theory on vapour? | show 🗑
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| In which church and on what date did Darwin marry Mary (Polly) Howard? | show 🗑
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| Which mentor of Darwin's wrote about artificial magnets and was called the father of seismology as a result of his 1760 "observations on earthquakes"? | show 🗑
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| Which seismologist, astronomer who envisaged black holes, and inventor of the torsion balance was mourned by Darwin as "a man of such accurate and universal knowledge...whose friendship I long possessed, and whose loss I have long lamented"? | show 🗑
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| Who was introduced to Darwin by Michell as “the best philosopher in America”? | show 🗑
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| Which organisation founded by Franklin may have been an inspiration for the Lunar Society? | show 🗑
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| Which friend of Darwin was a maker of clocks and scientific instruments? | show 🗑
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| Which Lichfield friend of Darwin's was a pioneering manufacturer of sulphuric acid, and an adviser to Darwin on bisiness matters? | show 🗑
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| In The Botanic Garden who was the only Englishman to be called immortal? | show 🗑
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| James Brindley and Benjamin Franklin were the only two people to be accorded which title in The Botanic Garden? | show 🗑
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| Who was the Lunar Society's preferred Chairman? | show 🗑
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| In Zoonomia what did Darwin say arose from 'awe, bashfulness, ambition of shining, or fear of not succeeding'? | show 🗑
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| Who described Darwin as “wonderfully entertaining and instructive” as a talker? | show 🗑
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| What was the name of the house in Lichfield nexgt to his home that Darwin used a part of? | show 🗑
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| What was the name of Darwin's daughter who was born in 1763 but died 4 months later in March 1764? | show 🗑
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| In a letter to Boulton, Darwin says that density is proportional to pressure divided by absolute temperature. By what name is that law more commonly known? | show 🗑
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| Darwin was the first person to state the principles of design for which vehicle? | show 🗑
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| Who was the chief activator of the Grand trunk campaign? | show 🗑
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| What name did Darwin propose be given to the canal, if built, when proposing it to Queen Charlotte, although this proposal was edited out? | show 🗑
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| Who edited Darwin's paper of inland navigation, to his chagrin? | show 🗑
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| Which friend of Darwin and Bentley edited the Monthly Review and gave the Inland Navigation paper a glowing review? | show 🗑
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| The mayor of which city complained that the proposed canal would damage trade? | show 🗑
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| Despite having replaced Darwin as Boulton's Doctor, who was his 'favourite friend'? | show 🗑
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| Where at Woorron Hall was Rouseau when Darwin met him? | show 🗑
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| What type of carriage did Edgeworth build upon a design of Darwin's? | show 🗑
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| Which society awarded Edgeworth with a gold medal in 1769 for his design for a four wheel carriage incorporating Darwin's steering design? | show 🗑
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| For what reason had Watt gone to London when on his return he met Darwin and Small? | show 🗑
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| What item at Lichfield Cathedral was installed at Darwin's advice? | show 🗑
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| Whose 1765 edition of Shakespeare was savaged in verse by Darwin alongside a critique of Seward's edition of Beaumont? | show 🗑
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| Which of Darwin's sons was sent to France in a bid to cure his stammer? | show 🗑
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| Where was Darwin's son Charles sent in a bid to cure his stammer? | show 🗑
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| Who accompanied Charles Darwin to France as his tutor? | show 🗑
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| Darwin's fifth child died just three weeks after being born. Named after one of Darwin's brothers what was his name? | show 🗑
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| When Wedgewood was planning his new pottery works at Burslem what name did Darwin suggest? | show 🗑
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| Wedgewood supplied Darwin with bones to identify, excavated from which part of the Grand Trunk Canal? | show 🗑
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| From the Spring of 1768 and for the following 7 years there were how many members of the Lunar Circle? | show 🗑
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| Who were the 9 original members of the Lunar Circle? | show 🗑
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| What injury did Darwin suffer in his 1768 road accident? | show 🗑
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| Which organisation did Darwin write to in 1769 requesting a grant to build a full size version of his windmill? | show 🗑
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| Who at the society of arts did Darwin write to about his windmill? | show 🗑
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| Who hit Darwin interested in metaphysics? | show 🗑
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| How did Darwin describe his proposed single common ancestor in zoonomia? | show 🗑
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| The bones found in the Harecastle tunnel and in Derbyshire caves led Darwin to propose what theory? | show 🗑
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| How old was Polly when she died on 30 June 1770? | show 🗑
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| What did Darwin send to miss Newton after Polly's death? | show 🗑
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| In which year did Darwin begin work on zoonomia? | show 🗑
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| Who painted a portrait of Darwin in 1770 possibly in lieu of payment for treatment? | show 🗑
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| Which of Darwin's friends adopted two twelve year old girls with a view to educating them both and marrying one of them? | show 🗑
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| By 1771 the wychnor iron works was manufacturing which item? | show 🗑
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| In 1771 Darwin proposed building a narrow canal to link Lichfield to where on the grand trunk canal? | show 🗑
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| Armed with a theory of phonetics which machine did Darwin build in 1771?Which letters could the speaking machine pronounce perfectly? | show 🗑
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| How much money did Charles Howard (Polly's father) leave to Darwin? | show 🗑
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| How much money did Charles Howard leave in trust for Darwin's sons? | show 🗑
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| What was the name of Wedgwood's wife who Darwin treated? | show 🗑
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| In which work did Darwin write a eulogy for James Brindley? | show 🗑
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| Who sent Darwin a copy of Priestley's paper on aerated water? | show 🗑
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| What was the moat at cathedral close in Lichfield called? | show 🗑
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| To encourage the writing of which son did Darwin form the Lichfield literary circle? | show 🗑
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| While at Lichfield which geologist helped Darwin with experiments with an air gun to show that air was cooled by expansion? | show 🗑
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| Who sent Dr small six dozen bottles of Madeira which didn't arrive until after smalls death? | show 🗑
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| In his first poem to Eliza how did Darwin represent himself? | show 🗑
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| Elizabeth pole was the illegitimate daughter of which nobleman? | show 🗑
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| Who introduced Darwin to the poles? | show 🗑
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| Hunting song is one of Darwin's courtship poems in honour of whom? | show 🗑
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| Where did Charles Darwin go as an undergraduate in 1775? | show 🗑
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| What poem by Darwin appears in Munday's Needwood Forest? | show 🗑
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| In 1776 Darwin began writing case notes and ideas down in which book? | show 🗑
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| What structure Erasmus and Erasmus junior buy in Lichfield in 1780? | show 🗑
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| Darwin translated the work of which botanist? | show 🗑
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| Which poem by Darwin greatly influenced the romantic poets especially wordsworth and Coleridge? | show 🗑
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| What innovation did Darwin design for canals? | show 🗑
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| Darwin designed a watch spring power source for his artificial bird, how did he originally suggest that the spring be rewound in flight? | show 🗑
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| What did Darwin call his copying machine? | show 🗑
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| Darwin sent a poem to Boulton requesting that he make which object for Elizabeth pole? | show 🗑
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| show | Gold medal of the aesculapian society of Edinburgh
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| Who supervised the cutting of the memorial inscription for Charles? | show 🗑
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| An elegy to Charles was published in the name of which man? | show 🗑
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| Which Scottish woman who was heading home to die was treated by Darwin and recovered? | show 🗑
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| What did Darwin design to aid his electrotherapy treatments? | show 🗑
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| What device did Darwin have installed in his house to monitor the wind? | show 🗑
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| What major advance in meteorology did Darwin note in his commonplace book? | show 🗑
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| show | Continuous telemetry and more frequent observations
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| Whose poem about Darwin's Botanic garden did he arrange to be published in the gentleman's magazine? | show 🗑
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| In order to translate which person's work did Darwin establish the botanical society of Lichfield? | show 🗑
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| Who were the other two members of the botanical society of Lichfield? | show 🗑
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| When Darwin abandoned his bigrapher he designed another on the pantograph principle. What did he call it? | show 🗑
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| To whom did Darwin send his polygrapher? | show 🗑
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| Darwin celebrated Elizabeth's recovery from fever with which poem? | show 🗑
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| What is the title of the longest of Darwin's courtship poems? | show 🗑
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| Who assisted Darwin in his horizontal windmill experiments of 1779? | show 🗑
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| For 13 years the horizontal windmill was used at etruria, for what purpose? | show 🗑
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| Who did Darwin employ to teach French to his and Wedgwood's children? | show 🗑
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| For what reason did Darwin become a complete alcohol abstainer? | show 🗑
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| show | Joseph Priestley
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| show | Joseph Priestley
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| On what day of the week did the Lunar Circle originally meet? | show 🗑
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| show | the therapeutic use of digitalis?
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| Which member of the Lunar Society was furious at the publication of Charles Darwin's dissertation on digitalis as he felt the discovery was his? | show 🗑
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| Anne Seward's elegy to which man is thought to have been co-authored with Darwin? | show 🗑
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| show | Elegy on Captain Cook
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| show | the Swan of Lichfield
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| Darwin wrote a letter on behalf of his Persian cat to Anna Seward's tabby. What were their names? | show 🗑
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| show | 27th of November 1780
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| How old were Darwin and Elizabeth when Elizabeth was widowed? | show 🗑
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| show | Not to live in Lichfield
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| When Darwin left Lichfield where did Susannah retire to? | show 🗑
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| show | Joseph Day
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| show | Radburn Hall
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| When did Darwin and Elizabeth marry? | show 🗑
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| show | Radburn Church
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| The author of Needwood Forest was a witness at Darwin's wedding to Elizabeth. What was his name? | show 🗑
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| Which man, with the best botanical library in the country became a friend of Darwin during his London honeymoon? | show 🗑
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| After their marriage where did Darwin and Elizabeth spend 6 weeks? | show 🗑
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| show | Henry Fuseli
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| show | The Nightmare
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| Darwin's poem written for Fuseli's Nightmare was published in which of his books? | show 🗑
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| show | Joseph Johnson
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| show | Seven
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| show | Derby
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| The 'water controversy' was about which scientific theory? | show 🗑
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| show | Lavoisier
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| show | Water is composed of aqueous gas
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| Which light hearted poem formed part 2 of The Botanic Garden? | show 🗑
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| Darwin lost money upon the sale of which business venture? | show 🗑
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| One of Darwin's business partners in Wychnor Ironworks began writing novels after the ironworks were sold, inspiring Darwin to also write. What was his name? | show 🗑
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| show | Garbett
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| In his absence, who looked after Darwin's botanic garden in Lichfield? | show 🗑
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| Darwin asked which man if he could dedicate The Botanic Garden to him? | show 🗑
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| show | Latin
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| show | Elmgren's Termini
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| show | A System Of Vegetables]
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| Rather than use his own name, A System of Vegetables was published in the name of which organisation? | show 🗑
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| show | 4
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| Darwin thanked 33 other botanists for their help with his translation of Linnaeus, but which Lunar Society member was dismissed? | show 🗑
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| show | Samuel Johnson
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| show | Edward Stringer
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| What was the name of the first child of Darwin and Elizabeth? | show 🗑
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| Who did darwin ask to pay back a debt when he moved to Derby? | show 🗑
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| What was darwin's 'great steam wheel in oil' that he designed and tried to lure into Wedgwood into a business manufacturing? | show 🗑
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| show | no water trap
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| show | James Hutton
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| Which quaker gun maker joined the lunar society on Darwin's absence? | show 🗑
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| show | William Hayley
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| Moved by magnets what creature did Darwin create to startle people? | show 🗑
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| A machine for moving what game pieces was invented by Darwin? | show 🗑
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| show | candlestick
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| Darwin invented a mini plough to aid the planting of which crop? | show 🗑
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| what did Darwin call his invention to automatically open windows of a greenhouse when the sin shines? | show 🗑
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| show | Hot air balloon
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| show | The Loves of The Plants
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| show | Uranus
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| For what purpose did Darwin suggest Edgeworth should use balloons on his estate? | show 🗑
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| In which work did Darwin foresee steam (or explosive) powered mechanically propelled aircraft? | show 🗑
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| show | Philosophical Society of Derby
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| show | Violetta
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| Which of Darwin's daughters married Galton's son Tertius? | show 🗑
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| What did Darwin observe in the sky in August 1783, sending his observations to the Royal Society? | show 🗑
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| show | Zoonomia
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| Which of Darwin's siblings died in 1783 aged 57? | show 🗑
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| Where in Derby was Darwin's house? | show 🗑
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| show | Darwin
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| What type of well did Darwin invent at Derby? | show 🗑
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| show | Hydrogen balloon
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| How far did Darwin's hydrogen balloon fly which was meant to land at Soho but was blown off course to land 15 miles to the north west? | show 🗑
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| show | building up a library
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| Where did the Derby Philosophical Society meet on the first Saturday of every month? | show 🗑
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| How much did it cost to join the DPS? | show 🗑
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| How much were the annual subscriptions of the DPS | show 🗑
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| What was the fine for missing a meeting of the DPS | show 🗑
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| show | 1 crown
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| Which inventor was Darwin's deputy in the DPS? | show 🗑
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| show | Dispensary for the sick poor
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| In his appeal for funds for the dispensary in Derby Darwin plays on the fears of which disease? | show 🗑
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| Which Chatsworth noble became a patient of Darwin's at Derby? | show 🗑
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| show | The fermentation of sugar into alcohol
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| show | He had treated him for free many years before
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| show | The Loves of The Plants
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| show | 1784
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| To whom did Darwin send The Loves of The Plants to be published? | show 🗑
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| show | The economy of vegetation
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| Why did Darwin not want to publish poems under his own name? | show 🗑
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| Who was the second daughter of Elizabeth and Darwin born in 1784? | show 🗑
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| Which flower did Darwin tell Anna Seward was 'a flower of such exquisite beauty that would make you waste the summer's day in examining it'? | show 🗑
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| What machine used in textile manufacture did Darwin try to design? | show 🗑
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| Darwin's lines of verse in praise of Arkwright's machinery was satirised in whose poemThe loves of the Triangles? | show 🗑
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| show | The loves of the Triangles
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| In The Loves of The Plants which seed does Darwin predict will become the principle clothing of mankind? | show 🗑
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| A patent case against which man caused Darwin to persuade Boulton and Watt to assist in his defence? | show 🗑
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| In 1785 Darwin published An Account of the Successful Use of Foxglove in some Dropsies in the medical transactions of which body? | show 🗑
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| show | Monthly Review
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| show | View of Gibraltar
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| An attack on which man caused Darwin to write the 358 line manuscript poem 'To Peter Pindar'? | show 🗑
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| show | Peter Pindar
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|
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| What was the pen name of satirist John Wolcot? | show 🗑
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| Which patient of Darwin's died under Withering's care? | show 🗑
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| show | Mr Upton
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| show | Francis Sacheveral Darwin
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| show | Andrew Duncan
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| show | Leyden
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| show | How wind blowing towards mountains create huge eddies
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| show | Shrewsbury
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| show | Occular spectra
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|
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| Which invention of Aime Argand was maunfactured by Boulton, but Darwin encouraged by Wedgwood thought he could do better. What was the invention? | show 🗑
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| show | Portland Vase
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|
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| What type of parasite did Darwin electrocute? | show 🗑
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| In the commonplace book Darwin designed a clock governed by which material? | show 🗑
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| What was the title of Darwin's second Linnaean translation? | show 🗑
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| show | hydrogen powered
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|
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| show | Withering
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|
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| Which of Darwin's brothers published Principia Botanica? | show 🗑
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| show | The System of Vegetables, and Families of Plants
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| show | John
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| show | Ironbridge
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| show | Thomas Beddoes
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|
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| When Darwin wrote to Benjamin Franklin in 1787 how did he address the letter? | show 🗑
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| Which invention of Abraham Bennet did Darwin write to Franklin about? | show 🗑
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| Whose advice finally persuaded Darwin to publish the loves of the plants? | show 🗑
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| show | Keir's dictionary of Chemistry
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| show | Fossils from Cornwall
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| show |
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| show | Phlogiston
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|
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| Who did Darwin write to saying that withering had a habit of congratulating people on their recovery just before they died? | show 🗑
|
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| show | Appeal to the faculty concerning the case of Mrs houlston
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|
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| show | Adiabatic expansion of gases
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|
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| show | Chemnic metal mines
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|
||||
| show | Devaporate
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|
||||
| show | Dr John pigot
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|
||||
| show | Mrs schimmelpennick
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|
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| show | Susannah
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|
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| show | Anti slavery medallion
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|
||||
| show | Slavery
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|
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| Darwin's comments about slavery in the Botanic garden were linked to which plant due to its seeds also crossing the Atlantic? | show 🗑
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| show | 57
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| show | 24
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|
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| Who printed the loves of the plants? | show 🗑
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| Who published the loves of the plants? | show 🗑
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| Who narrates the loves of the plants? | show 🗑
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| show | Canna
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|
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| Two of the five plates in the loves of the plants are of which kind of plant? | show 🗑
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| Which insectiverous plant fascinated both Erasmus and his grandson Charles? | show 🗑
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| show | Mimosa
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|
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| Which poet was inspired by the loves of the plants and wrote the sensitive plant? | show 🗑
|
||||
| Which plant in tlotp has plumes that drift on the wind causing darwin to talk about the Montgolfiers? | show 🗑
|
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| show | Arkwright
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|
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| show | St Anthony
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|
||||
| Darwin's lines on cinchona led Darwin to talk about which reformer in tlotp? | show 🗑
|
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| Darwin reprints his lines about fuseli's nightmare in relation to which plant? | show 🗑
|
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| What is described as 'that most sudden poison' in tlotp? | show 🗑
|
||||
| What is the name of the poison tree of java? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Horace Walpole
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|
||||
| show | William Cowper
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|
||||
| show | Anna Seward
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|
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| show | William Blake
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|
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| Other than nitrogen what else does Darwin say plants need in their diet? | show 🗑
|
||||
| The birth of Darwin's sixth child Henry coincided with the publication of which work? | show 🗑
|
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| show | Susannah
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|
||||
| What means of cruising the Derwent in Derby did Darwin design and build? | show 🗑
|
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| show | Thomas day
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|
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| Which geologist is mentioned twelve times in the Botanic garden? | show 🗑
|
||||
| Darwin penned some verses to go with a medallion Wedgwood made for which city? | show 🗑
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| Darwin's verses about Sydney were based on a passage called Liberty by which man? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Cupid
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|
||||
| Darwin suggested that the figures on the Portland vase represented what? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | The economy of vegetation
🗑
|
||||
| What invention of Boulton's did Darwin say saved many lives from the executioner? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Matlock and Buxton
🗑
|
||||
| show | James Pilkington
🗑
|
||||
| show | The economy of vegetation
🗑
|
||||
| show | Oxygen
🗑
|
||||
| show | The Botanic garden
🗑
|
||||
| In which of Darwin's are prose interludes interspersed with the cantos, where a bookseller questions the poet this allowing him to share his views on poetry? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Lyrical ballads
🗑
|
||||
| show | Honora
🗑
|
||||
| What post did Darwin enquire about in 1790 as he feared for his family in the event of his death? | show 🗑
|
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| Darwin's last child was born in 1790. What was her name? | show 🗑
|
||||
| Why did Darwin decline his son Robert's request to provide an introduction for an apothecary friend in Lichfield? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Obtaining an ingraving of the Portland vase
🗑
|
||||
| show | William Blake
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|
||||
| Who engraved 11 plates for the economy of vegetation? | show 🗑
|
||||
| For the third edition of tlotp Darwin added 100 lines in which plant, noting its rapid growth rate? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | The loves of the plants, the economy of vegetation
🗑
|
||||
| Who did Darwin convince not to commit suicide after the death of his daughter Penelope? | show 🗑
|
||||
| Which event of 1791 fatally wounded the lunar society? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Priestley
🗑
|
||||
| show | Withering
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|
||||
| show | Priestley
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|
||||
| show | Rev Charles hope
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|
||||
| In the economy of vegetation Darwin speaks through the mouth of which goddess? | show 🗑
|
||||
| In the economy of vegetation the goddess addresses which creatures in Cantos 1 and 3? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Gnomes
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|
||||
| show | Sylphs
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|
||||
| show | Anna Seward
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|
||||
| show | The creation of the universe
🗑
|
||||
| show | Big bang
🗑
|
||||
| Who instructs the almighty Lord to create the universe in the economy of vegetation? | show 🗑
|
||||
| Lines about a flying chariot and flying machines powered by an explosive material appear in canto 1 of which work? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Lightning
🗑
|
||||
| Which characters are netted by Vulcan whilst coupled in canto 2 of the economy of vegetation? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | The moon
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|
||||
| show | Sea shells
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|
||||
| show | Canto2
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|
||||
| Liberty in the form of the American and French revolutions is addressed in which canto of the economy of vegetation? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | 2
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|
||||
| show | 2
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|
||||
| show | Bury the army of cambyses in sand
🗑
|
||||
| show | Pure air and flaming gas (oxygen and hydrogen)
🗑
|
||||
| show | The wooing of Jupiter by juno
🗑
|
||||
| show | Submarines
🗑
|
||||
| show | Priestley
🗑
|
||||
| show | The sage
🗑
|
||||
| show | Sea balloons/ submarines
🗑
|
||||
| Which astronomers theories are explained in canto 4 of Yeovil? | show 🗑
|
||||
| Which cosmological idea, first mentioned to Darwin by michell is mentioned in canto 4 of teov? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Senacherib
🗑
|
||||
| show | Canto4
🗑
|
||||
| show | The economy of vegetation
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|
||||
| show | William Cowper
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|
||||
| 50 years after the economy of vegetation which poet said 'my taste and natural tendencies were under an injurious influence from the dazzling manner of Darwin'? | show 🗑
|
||||
| Despite detesting Darwin's verse style and evolutionary theories who said of Darwin 'I think he is the first literary character in Europe, and the most original minded'? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | 65
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|
||||
| show | 82
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|
||||
| show | Wordsworth
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|
||||
| show | Buds
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|
||||
| What did Darwin say was the great source of life to all organised beings? | show 🗑
|
||||
| Where did Darwin say the heat of springs and volcanos came from? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Oil
🗑
|
||||
| In his consideration of the atmosphere how many strata did Darwin divide the atmosphere into? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Hydrogen
🗑
|
||||
| Which phenomenon did Darwin correctly say was in the third stratum of the atmosphere over forty miles above the surface? | show 🗑
|
||||
| What phenomenon caused by excited atoms returning to normal after being excited by sunshine did Darwin correctly describe? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Winds
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|
||||
| show | Thomas Beddoes
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|
||||
| Which man featured in the Botanic garden visited Darwin and was down a specimen of lead confined like a nucleus inside an iron shell? | show 🗑
|
||||
| Who did Darwin write an obituary of in the derby mercury saying he had contributed more to the general benefit of mankind than any other single effort of human ingenuity? | show 🗑
|
||||
| Which organisation did Darwin help found seeing welfare benefits, reform of parliament and universal male franchise? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Address to the friends of free enquiry and the general good
🗑
|
||||
| As well as parliament which rejected it the Derbyshire political society's address was presented to which other body? | show 🗑
|
||||
| Where was the address to the friends of free enquiry and the general good published? | show 🗑
|
||||
| What was the original verdict in the trial of the editors of the morning chronicle? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Johnson
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|
||||
| How much did Johnson offer Darwin for zoonomia? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Keir
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|
||||
| show | Mary Anne Galton
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|
||||
| Where was Darwin given a tip for a horse race in return for having treated the jockeys mother some years before? | show 🗑
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||||
| Which friend of Darwin published books including the history of Isaac Jenkins and a letter to Erasmus Darwin? | show 🗑
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||||
| Which of Darwin's friends set up a medical practice in Bristol and became an advocate of pneumatic medicine? | show 🗑
|
||||
| What was the 'giant malady' that Darwin commended Beddoes for combating? | show 🗑
|
||||
| In recognition of his scientific work Darwin became a fellow of which organisation in 1792? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | American philosophical society
🗑
|
||||
| What gift did Wedgwood give Darwin in 1793? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Zoonomia
🗑
|
||||
| Which book of Darwin's contained his theories on medicine and life? | show 🗑
|
||||
| Where did Darwin buy a property to be used as a school run by his daughters by Mary Parker? | show 🗑
|
||||
| Darwin's 128 guide to running a girl's school was published in 1794 under what name? | show 🗑
|
||||
| In which publication does Darwin recommend that girls learn modern languages, science as well as going practical work? | show 🗑
|
||||
| What physical activities did Darwin recommend for girls that were 'not allowed to ladies by the fashion of this age and country'? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Keeping the window open during summer
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|
||||
| show | Stays
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|
||||
| show | Card playing
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|
||||
| show | Consumption
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|
||||
| Spurred on by the death of his daughter Jessie, James watt designed apparatus for producing gases for what? | show 🗑
|
||||
| Darwin was a subscriber to which body set up by Thomas beddoes? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Tom Wedgwood
🗑
|
||||
| Which paper by Robert Darwin was reproduced in zoonomia? | show 🗑
|
||||
| Which creator of the wave theory of light visited Darwin in 1794? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Europe wide weather maps
🗑
|
||||
| show | Schweppe of drury lane
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|
||||
| What is the alternative title of zoonomia? | show 🗑
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| show | Generation
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|
||||
| In zoonomia Darwin divides all bodily actions into which four classes? | show 🗑
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||||
| In zoonomia which bodily actions would include drunkenness? | show 🗑
|
||||
| Smallpox, cancer and sneezing are classed as which kind of bodily action in zoonomia? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Volition
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|
||||
| Vomiting, fever and other side effects are classed as what kind of bodily action in zoonomia? | show 🗑
|
||||
| In zoonomia Darwin correctly describes which process related to blood? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Instinct
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|
||||
| Zoonomia is the first book to have used which layout structure? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Index expurgatorius
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|
||||
| Which poem parodied Darwin and purported to be a poetic epistle from Darwin to beddoes? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | T j Mathias
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|
||||
| In which year did Josiah Wedgwood die? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Pain in his jaw and then mortification,plus pain in his no leg
🗑
|
||||
| What did Mr bott make for Darwin that he told Robert would make him amazed at his juvenility? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Hippopotamus bone
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|
||||
| Which two of Darwin's friends published the book medicinal use of factitious airs? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | 1) creatures can change form or tadpoles to frog 2) humans have bred different types of creatures to exhibit desired characteristics resulting in diversity 3) mutations can be inherited
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|
||||
| Which three objects of desire does Darwin say in zoonomia have driven evolution? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Great first cause
🗑
|
||||
| In which book does Darwin clarify how and where the single living filament came to be through spontaneous vitality? | show 🗑
|
||||
| Who met Darwin in January 1796 while seeking subscribers for The watchman and called him "Dr Darwin, the everything, except the Christian"? | show 🗑
|
||||
| When talking to Coleridge what did Darwin call 'a feather bed to catch a falling Christian"? | show 🗑
|
||||
| Who did Darwin offer a job of reading and summarising philosophers to? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Robert
🗑
|
||||
| show | Pigs
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|
||||
| How many diseases are catalogued in part 2 of zoonomia? | show 🗑
|
||||
| In zoonomia Darwin writes of orci Timor, what is it? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Marriage
🗑
|
||||
| show | Sympathetic theory of fever
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|
||||
| show | Materia medica
🗑
|
||||
| In which year did burdett, Walpole, Hutton, strutt, Wright, Dixon, Elizabeth edgeworth and his mother all die? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | 94
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|
||||
| show | Sinclair
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|
||||
| show | George 3
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|
||||
| show | Dr Warren
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|
||||
| Whose biographia medica, biographies of past doctors, was dedicated to Darwin? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Brown
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|
||||
| Which politician was behind the loves of the triangles? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Evolution, the usefulness of electricity, mountains being older than the bible says
🗑
|
||||
| show | Pitt
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|
||||
| Darwin was portrayed as a jacobin on whose cartoon the new morality? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | As an ape with a basket containing jacobin bonneted plants on his head
🗑
|
||||
| show | Lyrical ballads
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|
||||
| Which poem by wordsworth about a stick thief very closely copied from zoonomia? | show 🗑
|
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| show | Rime of the ancient mariner
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| Which of Darwin's children had problems managing his finances? | show 🗑
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| Which of Darwin's children joined the army? | show 🗑
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| Who wrote the American introduction to the Botanic garden? | show 🗑
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| Which assistant to beddoes while working at the pneumatic institution discovered the anaesthetic effects of nitrous oxide? | show 🗑
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| show | £1,000.00
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| show | Vaccination
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| What was Darwin's book about agriculture? | show 🗑
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| show | Drill plough
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| Which son bought the priory at breadwell? | show 🗑
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| Which of Darwin's sons drowned? | show 🗑
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| show | Mr Parsons
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| What was Darwin's final writing machine made of? | show 🗑
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| Which discovery in electricity of 1800 did Darwin suggest could be used to treat Georgiana duchess of Devonshire's eye problem? | show 🗑
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| Who asked Darwin to comment on her poem Passage of mount st gothard? | show 🗑
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| Which book was published in 1800? | show 🗑
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| What was the subtitle of phytologia? | show 🗑
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| In phytologia how does Darwin class vegetables? | show 🗑
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| How many parts are there to phytologia? | show 🗑
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| In which book does Darwin describe the process of photosynthesis? | show 🗑
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| show | Mule
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| The discovery of stomata on leaves was anticipated in which book 40 years before the discovery? | show 🗑
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| What does incorrectly suggest that plants possess in phytologia? | show 🗑
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| What does Darwin suggest in phytologia as a means of liberating slaves? | show 🗑
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| What is the subject of part 1,of phytologia? | show 🗑
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| show | The economy of vegetation
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| What two foods does Darwin say plants need in phytologia? | show 🗑
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| What gas did Darwin note that plants give out when exposed to sunlight? | show 🗑
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| show | Sugar/starch
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| show | Nitrogen
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| show | Calcium phosphate
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| What type of well does Darwin suggest in phytologia that people bore? | show 🗑
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| show | Horizontal windmill and water pump
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| What does Darwin suggest in phytologia could be done to counteract insects? | show 🗑
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| show | Infecting with tape worm
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| What was part 3 of phytologia concerned with? | show 🗑
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| show | Because human teeth and intestines are midway between carnivores and herbivores
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| show | Major trowel
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| show | Pines such as scotch fir
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| show | 3rd edition
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| show | Fibrils or molecules
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| show | Vaccinate children at their christening
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| When did Darwin die? | show 🗑
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| To whom was a letter left unfinished at Darwin's death? | show 🗑
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| show | Breadsall priory
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| show | Richard Phillips
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| Which of Darwin's poems was published the year after his death? | show 🗑
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| show | The origin of society
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| show | The temple of nature
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| show | Urania
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| show | Electromagnetic
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| show | Paley
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| show | Violetta
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| show | Francis
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| Which of Darwin's children became the vicar of elston? | show 🗑
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| show | Harriot
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| show | 84
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| show | Robert
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| Where did Susannah and Mary Parker run a school? | show 🗑
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| Which of Darwin's children had a book plate made with Darwin's motto of e conchis omnia on itWhere was Darwin buried? | show 🗑
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| show | Edgeworth
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| show | Frankenstein
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| show | Vermicelli
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| Which of Darwin's grandchildren wrote a biography of him? | show 🗑
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| show | 1776 to 1787
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| show | Chasetown
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| show | Erasmus Earle
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| show | Royal Physician
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| What set of monuments in Birmingham commemorate Darwin and other lunar men? | show 🗑
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| Which two publications were Darwin's translation of Linnaeus? | show 🗑
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| show | The loves of the plants, the economy of vegetation
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| show | The Botanic garden
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| Which Lunar man wrote Botanical Arrangement of all the Vegetables Naturally Growing in Great Britain, but Darwin criticised its softening of Linnaeus' sexual terminology? | show 🗑
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| In which book did Darwin coin such words as Stamen and Pistil? | show 🗑
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| Which part of The Botanic Garden celebrates the natural world? | show 🗑
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| Which part of the botanic garden celebrates scientific progress and technical innovation? | show 🗑
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| In the economy of vegetation Darwin describes the use of the steam engine in which industry? | show 🗑
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| show | Hartley
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| Which proto evolutionary writer was cited in The Temple of Nature? | show 🗑
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| show | Miss Parker's school
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| show | Robert Weldon
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| show | European Magazine
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| show | 6
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| show | 83
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| show | sensorium
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| show | subtile fluid
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| show | romance novels
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| The temple of nature featured characters from which two sets of mysteries? | show 🗑
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| show | French revolution
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| show | Daniel Eaton in Politics for the People
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| show | anti jacobin
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| The loves of the triangles was an attack on Darwin and which other man? | show 🗑
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| show | Classics and mathematics
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| Darwin was the grandfather of which man, the father of eugenics? | show 🗑
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| Under what pseudonym did Charles Darwin write a biography of erasmus? | show 🗑
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| show | Henrietta
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| Which grandchild of Darwin proposed the use of fingerprints, identikits and was significant in the founding of the met office? | show 🗑
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| Who arranged for the bust and inscription to Darwin in Lichfield cathedral? | show 🗑
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| show | George Cayley
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| show | suffragettes
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