Desmond King-Hele Author & Editor

Desmond King-Hele, who is the leading authority on Erasmus Darwin having studied his life and work for three decades, is a mathematician and physicist who is an expert on space research by satellite and in particular on the Earth's gravity field and the upper atmosphere, and worked for many years at the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society. He has written fifteen books including a standard critical work on Shelley, Shelley: His Thought and Work, and Erasmus Darwin and the Romantic Poets; and he has edited the Letters of Erasmus Darwin. His earlier life of Erasmus Darwin, Doctor of Revolution, will be superseded by this completely new book. He is also a poet.