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Hugh Miller and the controversies of Victorian science
- Title
- Hugh Miller and the controversies of Victorian science / edited by Michael Shortland.
- Author
- Miller, Hugh, 1802-1856.
- Publication
- Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | Q143.M645 A3 1996 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Shortland, Michael.
- Description
- viii, 401 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Contents
- Introduction / Michael Shortland -- 1. Bonneted mechanic and narrative hero: the self-modelling of Hugh Miller / Michael Shortland -- 2. The geologist from Cromarty / David R. Oldroyd -- 3. The natural historian as antiquary of the world: Hugh Miller and the rise of literary natural history / James G. Paradis -- 4. Palaeontology and theodicy: religion, politics and the Asterolepis of Stromness / John Henry -- 5. Like minds: the God of Hugh Miller / John Hedley Brooke -- 6. Hugh Miller, the Disruption and the Free Church of Scotland / Donald Macleod -- 7. The fallen meteor: Hugh Miller and local tradition / David Alston -- 8. Miller's improvement: a classic tale of self-advancement? / David Vincent -- 9. 'Stand, and unfold yourself': My Schools and Schoolmasters / David Robb -- 10. Miller's madness / Roy Porter -- 11. Hugh Miller's contribution to the Witness: 1840-56 / Michael Shortland -- Appendix: a bibliography of Hugh Miller / Michael Shortland.
- ISBN
- 0198540531
- LCCN
- 95041168
- OCLC
- 33209447
- ocm33209447
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries