Life and Letters of Hugh Miller - Letters of Hugh Mille

Klappentext The story of a nineteenth-century geologist and his attempt to reconcile his passionate commitment to both science and religion. Zusammenfassung The Life and Letters of Hugh Miller (1871) tells the fascinating story a Victorian geologist whose life was marked by a passionate commitment to both science and religion and the attempt to reconcile the two. Volume 2 covers Miller's intellectual life; publications; his marriage and children; and his tragic death. Inhaltsverzeichnis Book IV. The Bank Accountant: 1. Offer of a situation; 2. His first prose book; 3. Death of Miss Dunbar; 4. Letters to Miss Fraser, Finlay, and Dr. Waldie; 5. Marriage; 6. Science in the ascendant; 7. The Cromarty Fast-day; Book V. Editor: 1. Non-intrusion; 2. Letter to Lord Brougham; 3. At the editorial desk; 4. The disruption; 5. Difference with Dr. Candlish; Book VI. Man of Science: 1. The Old Red Sandstone; 2. Science and Religion; 3. The last Edinburgh period; 4. Closing scenes.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Bayne, Bayne Peter
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.06.2011
• EAN: 9781108072380
• ISBN: 978-1-108-07238-0
• No. of pages: 516
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - Earth Science; The Life and Letters of Hugh Miller 2 Volume Set
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Biographies, autobiographies; Diaries, letters & journals, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Diaries & Journals, SCIENCE / History, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geology, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History of Science, Diaries, letters and journals, Biography: science, technology & medicine, Geology, geomorphology and the lithosphere, Biography: science, technology and medicine, Geology & The Lithosphere