Author: William Devonshire SaullPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
An Essay on the Coincidence of Astronomical and Geological Phenomena, Addressed to the Geological Society of France
Author: William Devonshire SaullPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
An essay on the connexion between astronomical and geological phenomena. With notes
Author: William Devonshire SaullPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Reign of the Beast
Author: Adrian DesmondPublisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 1805112422
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
In the 1830s, decades before Darwin published the Origin of Species, a museum of evolution flourished in London. Reign of the Beast pieces together the extraordinary story of this lost working-man's institution and its enigmatic owner, the wine merchant W. D. Saull. A financial backer of the anti-clerical Richard Carlile, the ‘Devil's Chaplain’ Robert Taylor, and socialist Robert Owen, Saull outraged polite society by putting humanity’s ape ancestry on display. He weaponized his museum fossils and empowered artisans with a knowledge of deep geological time that undermined the Creationist base of the Anglican state. His geology museum, called the biggest in Britain, housed over 20,000 fossils, including famous dinosaurs. Saull was indicted for blasphemy and reviled during his lifetime. After his death in 1855, his museum was demolished and he was expunged from the collective memory. Now multi-award-winning author Adrian Desmond undertakes a thorough reading of Home Office spy reports and subversive street prints to re-establish Saull's pivotal place at the intersection of the history of geology, atheism, socialism, and working-class radicalism.
The Magazine of natural history and journal of zoology, botany, mineralogy, geology and meteorology
Author: The Magazine of Natural History and Journal of Zoology, Botany, Minearology, Geology and Meteorology
Author: J. C. LoudonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368769197
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1836.
Magazine of Natural History and Journal of Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy, Geology and Meteorology
Author: The Magazine of Natural History
Author: Magazine of Natural History
Author: John Claudius LoudonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Dictionary Of Nineteenth-Century of British Scientists
Author: Bernard LightmanPublisher: Thoemmes Continuum
ISBN: 9781855069992
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Dictionary of National Biography
Author: Leslie StephenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1426
Book Description