In 1795, Charles Darwin's grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, asked:

** Erasmus Darwin ( 1731 – 1802 ), physician and biologist, grandfather of Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 )

** Erasmus Alvey Darwin ( 1804 – 1881 ), brother of Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 )

** William Erasmus Darwin ( 1839 – 1914 ), eldest son of Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 )

Erasmus Darwin ( 12 December 1731 – 18 April 1802 ) was an English physician who turned down George III's invitation to be a physician to the King.

Erasmus Darwin House, his home in Lichfield, is now a museum dedicated to Erasmus Darwin and his life's work.

A school in nearby Chasetown recently converted to Academy status and is now known as Erasmus Darwin Academy.

Stone-cast bust of Erasmus Darwin, by W. J.

* Erasmus Darwin II ( 1759 – 1799 )

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Erasmus published a definitive fourth edition in 1527 containing parallel columns of Greek, Latin Vulgate and Erasmus's Latin texts.

In 1535 Erasmus published the fifth ( and final ) edition which dropped the Latin Vulgate column but was otherwise similar to the fourth edition.

In 1530, Erasmus published a new edition of the orthodox treatise of Algerus against the heretic Berengar of Tours in the eleventh century.

* The Correspondence of Erasmus ( U of Toronto Press, 1975 – 2011 ), 14 volumes down to 1528 are published

" Erasmus: Recent Critical Editions and Translations ,". Renaissance Quarterly 54 # 1 2001. pp 246 + Discusses both the Toronto translation and the entirely separate Latin edition published in Amsterdam since 1969 online edition

* Peter Erasmus Müller, published 1839, title: Saxonis Grammatici Historia Danica

His lectures were published, as recreated from his students ' notes ; among those who attended was the young Erasmus.

Erasmus probably coined the modern usage of the Latin word in his Adagia (" Adages "), published in the winter of 1517 – 1518, to designate the coherence of dissenters in spite of their differences in theological opinions.

Charles Darwin's grandfather Erasmus Darwin outlined a hypothesis of transmutation of species in the 1790s, and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck published a more developed theory in 1809.

The treatise entitled De duplici martyrio ad Fortunatum and attributed to Cyprian was not only published by Erasmus, but probably also composed by him.

Religious books from the time of the early printing press include the Book of Common Prayer from 1549, a 1585 Baskerville Bible with its revolutionary type-face, and also a collection of books by the Dutch philosopher and theologian Erasmus published from 1545 to 1548.

Zweig is best known for his novellas ( notably The Royal Game, Amok, Letter from an Unknown Woman – filmed in 1948 by Max Ophüls ), novels ( Beware of Pity, Confusion of Feelings, and the posthumously published The Post Office Girl ) and biographies ( notably Erasmus of Rotterdam, Conqueror of the Seas: The Story of Magellan, and Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles and also posthumously published, Balzac ).

Bailey also published a spelling-book in 1726 ; ' All the Familiar Colloquies of Erasmus Translated ,' 1733, of which a new edition appeared in 1878 ; ' The Antiquities of London and Westminster ,' 1726 ; ' Dictionarium Domesticum ,' 1736 ; Selections from Ovid and Phædrus ; and ' English and Latin Exercises.

Around this time, he became influenced by humanism, and he started buying books published by Johannes Froben, some by the great humanist Erasmus.

* 1551 — the Prutenic Tables of Erasmus Reinhold were published, based on Copernicus's theories.

His own works, which circulated in manuscript in his lifetime, include brief works on the Procession of the Holy Ghost, and letters to his brothers, to L. Bruni, Guauni, Traversari, and to Pallas Strozzi, as well as two which were eventually printed, his Erotemata Civas Questiones which was the first basic Greek grammar in use in Western Europe, first published in 1484 and widely reprinted, and which enjoyed considerable success not only among his pupils in Florence, but also among later leading humanists, being immediately studied by Thomas Linacre at Oxford and by Desiderius Erasmus at Cambridge ; and Epistolæ tres de comparatione veteris et novæ Romæ ( Three Letters Comparing Ancient and Modern Rome ).

The series originated with the first printed Greek New Testament, published in 1516 — a work undertaken in Basel by the Dutch Catholic scholar and humanist Desiderius Erasmus.

Brown's other work included a criticism of Erasmus Darwin's Zoonomia ( 1798 ), and he was one of the first contributors to the Edinburgh Review, in the second number of which he published a criticism of Immanuel Kant's philosophy, based entirely on Villers's French account of it.

He translated part of the Apophthegms by Erasmus, and assisted in the English version of his Paraphrases of Erasmus, published in 1548 as The first tome or volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the newe testamente.

The first noted published collection of aphorisms is Adagia by Erasmus of Rotterdam.

At Erasmus ’ request, Vergil worked on a translation from the Greek of Dio Chrysostom's De Perfecto Monacho, which he published in 1533.

Robbers named the company after the old Dutch printers family Elzevir, which, for example, published the works of Erasmus in 1587.