Author: Hugh Miller
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ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Sketch-book of Popular Geology
Author: Hugh Miller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Footprints of the Creator Or, The Asterolepsis of Stromness, Etc. [Illustrated.]
Author: Hugh Miller
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science
Author: David N. Livingstone
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226487261
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Here, David Livingstone and Charles Withers gather essays that deftly navigate the spaces of science in this significant period and reveal how each is embedded in wider systems of meaning authority, and identity.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226487261
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Here, David Livingstone and Charles Withers gather essays that deftly navigate the spaces of science in this significant period and reveal how each is embedded in wider systems of meaning authority, and identity.
The Earth on Show
Author: Ralph O'Connor
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226616703
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 557
Book Description
At the turn of the nineteenth century, geology—and its claims that the earth had a long and colorful prehuman history—was widely dismissedasdangerous nonsense. But just fifty years later, it was the most celebrated of Victorian sciences. Ralph O’Connor tracks the astonishing growth of geology’s prestige in Britain, exploring how a new geohistory far more alluring than the standard six days of Creation was assembled and sold to the wider Bible-reading public. Shrewd science-writers, O’Connor shows, marketed spectacular visions of past worlds, piquing the public imagination with glimpses of man-eating mammoths, talking dinosaurs, and sea-dragons spawned by Satan himself. These authors—including men of science, women, clergymen, biblical literalists, hack writers, blackmailers, and prophets—borrowed freely from the Bible, modern poetry, and the urban entertainment industry, creating new forms of literature in order to transport their readers into a vanished and alien past. In exploring the use of poetry and spectacle in the promotion of popular science, O’Connor proves that geology’s success owed much to the literary techniques of its authors. An innovative blend of the history of science, literary criticism, book history, and visual culture, The Earth on Show rethinks the relationship between science and literature in the nineteenth century.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226616703
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 557
Book Description
At the turn of the nineteenth century, geology—and its claims that the earth had a long and colorful prehuman history—was widely dismissedasdangerous nonsense. But just fifty years later, it was the most celebrated of Victorian sciences. Ralph O’Connor tracks the astonishing growth of geology’s prestige in Britain, exploring how a new geohistory far more alluring than the standard six days of Creation was assembled and sold to the wider Bible-reading public. Shrewd science-writers, O’Connor shows, marketed spectacular visions of past worlds, piquing the public imagination with glimpses of man-eating mammoths, talking dinosaurs, and sea-dragons spawned by Satan himself. These authors—including men of science, women, clergymen, biblical literalists, hack writers, blackmailers, and prophets—borrowed freely from the Bible, modern poetry, and the urban entertainment industry, creating new forms of literature in order to transport their readers into a vanished and alien past. In exploring the use of poetry and spectacle in the promotion of popular science, O’Connor proves that geology’s success owed much to the literary techniques of its authors. An innovative blend of the history of science, literary criticism, book history, and visual culture, The Earth on Show rethinks the relationship between science and literature in the nineteenth century.
A Catalogue of the Library of the Athenæum
Author: Athenæum Club (London, England). Library
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 514
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
second supplement to the catalogue of the library
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 930
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 930
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John Francis, Publisher of the Athenæum
Author: John Collins Francis
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Category : Athenæum, London
Languages : en
Pages : 612
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Category : Athenæum, London
Languages : en
Pages : 612
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The Athenaeum
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Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 862
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Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 862
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Foot-prints of the creator
Author: Hugh Miller
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Foot-prints of the Creator, Or, The Asterolepis of Stromness
Author: Hugh Miller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asterolepididae
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asterolepididae
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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