Encouraged by his own speech impediment, this man built a device out of wood and leather that was capable of pronouncingthe /a/, /b/, /p/, and /m/ sounds. Enraged that there was no school that would accept his two illegitimate daughters, thisman set one up himself in Ashbourne. This man was savaged in "The Loves of the Tria
Encouraged by his own speech impediment, this man built a device out of wood and leather that was capable of pronouncingthe /a/, /b/, /p/, and /m/ sounds. Enraged that there was no school that would accept his two illegitimate daughters, thisman set one up himself in Ashbourne. This man was savaged in "The Loves of the Triangles," which spoofed on an amazingerotic drama he wrote about flflora in support of Carolus Linnaeus's taxonomic system, titled The Loves of the Plants. Inher introduction to Frankenstein, Mary Shelley pointed to this man's experiments as the real-life inspiration for the book.His belief that gases could be applied to treat infections appears in his magnum opus, the Zoonomia, which contains severalproto-Lamarckian ideas. For 10 points, name this larger-than-life English physiologist, who was both the grandfather of Francis Galton and the grandfather of the author of The Origin of Species
Encouraged by his own speech impediment, this man built a device out of wood and leather that was capable of pronouncingthe /a/
Erasmus Darwin [prompt on Darwin]