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Erasmus and Darwin
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 and translated
For instance, since the last six verses of Revelation were missing from his Greek manuscript, Erasmus translated the Vulgate's text back into Greek.
Erasmus also translated the Latin text into Greek wherever he found that the Greek text and the accompanying commentaries were mixed up, or where he simply preferred the Vulgate ’ s reading to the Greek text.
In this edition Erasmus also supplied the Greek text of the last six verses of Revelation ( which he had translated from Latin back into Greek in his first edition ) from Cardinal Ximenez's Biblia Complutensis.
" Free will does not exist ", Luther's letter to Erasmus translated into German by Justus Jonas ( 1526 ).
The greatest names of the classical and patristic world are among those translated, edited or annotated by Erasmus, including Saint Ambrose, Aristotle, Saint Augustine, Saint Basil, Saint John Chrysostom, Cicero and Saint Jerome.
The mistranslation of pithos, a large storage jar, as " box " is usually attributed to the sixteenth century humanist Erasmus of Rotterdam when he translated Hesiod's tale of Pandora into Latin.
Erasmus, however, translated pithos into the Latin word pyxis, meaning " box ".
* Erasmus publishes A handbook on manners for children ( De Civilitate Morum Puerilium Libellus ), which becomes popular and widely translated.
She was a patron of the new learning, like many Renaissance nobles: Gentian Hervet translated Erasmus ' de immensa misericordia Dei ( The Great Mercy of God ) into English for her.
The name Myconius seems to have been given him by Erasmus ; it is a translated Greek name from the original Swiss surname.
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.
When the old Formiae was razed by the Saracens in 842, the cult of Erasmus was translated to Gaeta.
In Praise of Folly ( Greek title: Morias Enkomion ( Μωρίας Εγκώμιον ), Latin: Stultitiae Laus, sometimes translated as In Praise of More, Dutch title: Lof der Zotheid ) is an essay written in Latin in 1509 by Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam and first printed in 1511.
It starts off with a satirical learned encomium after the manner of the Greek satirist Lucian, whose work Erasmus and Sir Thomas More had recently translated into Latin, a piece of virtuoso foolery ; it then takes a darker tone in a series of orations, as Folly praises self-deception and madness and moves to a satirical examination of pious but superstitious abuses of Catholic doctrine and corrupt practices in parts of the Roman Catholic Church — to which Erasmus was ever faithful — and the folly of pedants ( including Erasmus himself ).
Before Erasmus ' death it had already passed into numerous editions and had been translated into French and German.
His Greek grammar ( in four books ), written in Greek, first printed at Venice in 1495, and afterwards partially translated by Erasmus in 1521, although in many respects defective, especially in its syntax, was for a long time the leading textbook.
A portion was translated into Latin by Sebastian Münster and by Erasmus Oswald Schreckenfuchs.
The Apophthegmes of Erasmus, translated into English by Nicolas Udall
Under Mary, with his reconversion to Catholicism he translated two tracts by Erasmus against Luther ( neither survives ).

Erasmus and idea
Even Erasmus became much more favourable towards the idea once he witnessed the accomplishments of More's daughters.
In 1508, Erasmus wrote, " One man's yawning makes another yawn .," and the French proverbialized the idea to " Un bon bâilleur en fait bâiller sept ." (" One good gaper makes seven others gape ").
Among early works exploring the idea of a transmutation of species was Erasmus Darwin's 1796 Zoönomia and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck's Philosophie Zoologique of 1809.
He cited Erasmus Darwin's Zoönomia in his doctoral dissertation, a work which introduced the idea of evolution in poetical form.
An existing letter of Erasmus, written in the year of Froben's death, gives an idea of his life and an estimate of his character ; and in it Erasmus mentions that his grief for the death of his friend was far more distressing than that which he had felt for the loss of his own brother, adding that all the apostles of science ought to wear mourning.
The collection was published anonymously, and the authorship has been a fertile subject of controversy, but the main portion of the letters are attributed to the humanists Crotus Rubeanus a. k. a. Johannes Jäger, who is said to have originated the idea and the title ; Ulrich von Hutten, who contributed mainly to the second volume ; Erasmus ; and Reuchlin.

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