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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100198540531

ISBN-139780198540533

eBay Product ID (ePID)80559

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Number of Pages412 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameHugh Miller and the Controversies of Victorian Science

Publication Year1996

SubjectEurope / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), General, History, Science & Technology

TypeTextbook

AuthorMichael Shortland

Subject AreaScience, Biography & Autobiography, History

FormatHardcover

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Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight30.3 Oz

Item Length9.5 in

Item Width6.5 in

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN95-041168

Reviews"[T]his work sets Miller's attainments more firmly into context, and assesses his concepts more extensively and critically, than has been attempted hitherto." --Earth Sciences History "Miller rose from rustic stonemason in the northwest Scottish Highlands fishing port of Cromarty to public acclaim as geologist and paleontologist, crusading journal editor, and advocate for an anti-Darwinian theology that emphasized human complicity with God in the process of creation. . . .Shortland himself contributes an exuberantly postmodern, deconstructionist reading of Miller's personal life."--Choice, "[T]his work sets Miller's attainments more firmly into context, and assesses his concepts more extensively and critically, than has been attempted hitherto." -- Earth Sciences History "Miller rose from rustic stonemason in the northwest Scottish Highlands fishing port of Cromarty to public acclaim as geologist and paleontologist, crusading journal editor, and advocate for an anti-Darwinian theology that emphasized human complicity with God in the process of creation. . . .Shortland himself contributes an exuberantly postmodern, deconstructionist reading of Miller's personal life."-- Choice, "[T]his work sets Miller's attainments more firmly into context, and assesses his concepts more extensively and critically, than has been attempted hitherto." --Earth Sciences History"Miller rose from rustic stonemason in the northwest Scottish Highlands fishing port of Cromarty to public acclaim as geologist and paleontologist, crusading journal editor, and advocate for an anti-Darwinian theology that emphasized human complicity with God in the process of creation. . . .Shortland himself contributes an exuberantly postmodern, deconstructionist reading of Miller's personal life."--Choice

Dewey Edition20

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal509.41/09034

Table Of ContentPreface1. Bonneted Mechanic and Narrative Hero: the Self-Modelling of Hugh Miller2. Geologist from Cromarty3. The Natural Historian as Antiquary of the World: Hugh Miller and the Hieroglyphs of Geology4. Palaeontology and Theodicy: Religion, Politics and the Asterolepsis of Stromeness5. Like Minds: The God of Hugh Miller6. Hugh Miller, the Disruption and the Free Church of Scotland7. The Fallen Meteor: Hugh Miller and Local Tradition8. Miller's Improvement: A Classic Tale of Self Advancement?9. 'Stand and unfold yourself: My Schools and Schoolmasters10. Miller's Madness11. Hugh Miller's Contribution to the Witness: 1840-1856A Bibliography of Hugh MillerIndex

SynopsisIt is rare nowadays to come upon an undeservedly neglected figure from Britain's Victorian age, but Hugh Miller (1802-56), the subject of this book, is one example. Admired in his time by such celebrated thinkers as Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens, and Thomas Carlyle, Hugh Miller's many books on science, literature and religion addressed the preoccupying thoughts of the time, selling in tens of thousands of copies and winning admirers around the world. This collection of essays offers the first modern assessment of Miller, his life and work, and reveals one of the most fascinating and baffling men of his day. This newly discovered chapter in scientific thought will interest historians in science, social studies, labor studies, or the nineteenth century., It is rare nowadays to come upon an undeservedly neglected figure from Britain's Victorian age, but Hugh Miller (1802-56), the subject of this book, is certainly one such. Admired in his time by such celebrated thinkers as Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens, and Thomas Carlyle, Hugh Miller's many books on science, literature and religion sold in tens of thousands of copies, winning admirers around the world. This collection of essays offers the first modern assessment of Miller, his life and work, and reveals one of the most fascinating and baffling men of his day.

LC Classification NumberQ143.M645A3 1996