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Title: The Foot-Prints of the Creator: or, the Asterolepis of Stromness. From the third London edition, with a memoir of the author by Louis Agassiz.
Author: Hugh Miller
Publisher: Gould and Lincoln, Boston
Published: 1860
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 337
Catalogs: Geology, Scotland, Science
: Illustrated with 58 woodcuts. Original blind-embossed brown cloth with embossed portrait of Hugh Miller on both boards, and gilt lettering on spine. Corners are bumped and slightly exposed, spine ends are frayed. Small tear in cloth at bottom front hinge. Frontispiece depicts engraving of Hugh Miller from the original talbotype. Contains pasted stamp from William’s Bookstore in Worcester, Massachusetts on the glazed brown front pastedown. Dedication in ink to George A. Putnam from his brother H. E. Brooks. Originally published in 1849, this work merges Miller’s geologic scholarship with an argument on intelligent design from the direct action of a benevolent creator. Hugh Miller (1802-1856) was a Scottish geologist, writer, and folklorist. His apprenticeship to a stonemason led him to study geology. While he had no formal scientific training, he wrote several works on geology, including this one on the Asterolepsis fish fossils of Orkney, and another on the sedimentary rock deposits of the Caledonian Orogeny in the Silurian, Devonian, and Carboniferous periods. The contents of this book include the geology of Stromness and Lake Stennis (Loch of Stenness), the development hypothesis of Maillet and Lamarck, the family of the Asterolepsis, fossil records of Asterolepsis, and challenges to Lamarckism and to the conclusions drawn by Robert Chambers in Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, which had been published a few years earlier and was widely read. Hardcover, very good condition. 337 pages plus publisher’s list, 12mo.
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