Hugh Miller and the Controversies of Victorian Science
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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 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.
Hugh Miller and the Controversies of Victorian Science,Michael Shortland,Oxford University Press, USA,0198540531,1802-1856,19th century,Biography / Autobiography,General,Great Britain,History,History Of Science,Influence,Intellectual life,Life Sciences - Evolution,Miller, Hugh,,Science,Science/Mathematics,Biography: general,English,Geology & the lithosphere,History, Other | History of Science,Literary studies: 19th century,Miller, Hugh,Protestantism & Protestant Churches,Science / History,Scotland
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