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Charles Darwin
sticated English family. His maternal grandfather was the successful china and pottery entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood; his paternal grandfather was the well-known 18th-century physician and savant Erasm ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin and the Theory of Evolution
Feb. 12, 1809. Darwin'sfather was a successful and wealthy physician; his mother was a daughter of JosiahWedgwood, the famous British potter. She died when Charles was 8 years old, and theboy was rea ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Charles Darwin
What Factors Made Rapid Industrialisation Possible In England (British Isles) Between 1750 - 1850?
of the pottery industry after the canal system was built, and grew quickly to provide the workers. Josiah Wedgwood, a potter, was a shareholder in the Grand Trunk Canal by which he brought clay from ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics > Development Studies
The Life Of Charles Darwin
utside of London, and the grandson of the physician Erasmus Darwin, and of the artisan-entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood. Darwin enjoyed a secure position in the upper middle class that provided him with s ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies
Charles Darwin
sticated English family. His maternal grandfather was the successful china and pottery entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood; his paternal grandfather was the well-known 18th-century physician and savant Erasm ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Charles Darwin