Portrait de Hugh Miller
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Auteur

Hugh Miller

Géologue, écrivain et folkloriste écossais

Naissance
10 octobre 1802, Cromarty
Décès
24 décembre 1856, Édimbourg
Nationalité
Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande
Profession
Géologue, écrivain ou écrivaine, éditeur ou éditrice, botaniste et paléontologue

Vie et œuvre

Hugh Miller (10 octobre 1802 - 23/24 décembre 1856) était un géologue, écrivain, folkloriste et évangéliste écossais.

Publications

Scenes and legends of the north of Scotland: or, The traditional history of Cromarty (1834)

The old red sandstone: or, New walks in an old field (1841)

First impressions of England and its people (1847)

The foot-prints of the Creator: or, The Asterolepis of Stromness (1849)

My schools and schoolmasters; or, The story of my education (1854)

The cruise of the Betsey: or, a summer ramble among the fossiliferous deposits of the Hebrides; with Rambles of a geologist; or, Ten thousand miles over the fossiliferous deposits of Scotland (1857)

The testimony of the rocks; or, Geology in its bearings on the two theologies, natural and revealed (1857)

The old red sandstone; or, New walks in an old field. To which is appended a series of geological papers, read before the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1858)

Sketch-book of popular geology being a series of lectures delivered before the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh (1859)

Popular geology: a series of lectures read before the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh, with Descriptive sketches from a geologist's portfolio (1859)

The headship of Christ and The rights of the Christian people (1860)

Tales and sketches (1862)

Edinburgh and its neighbourhood, geological and historical; with the geology of the Bass rock (1863)

Essays, historical and biographical, political, social, literary and scientific (1865)

Sketch-book of popular geology (1869)

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Collection

Livres de Hugh Miller

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