The Mining Manual and Almanack for 1851
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Page : 486 pages
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Release : 1851
Category : Almanacs, British
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Page : 486 pages
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Release : 1851
Category : Almanacs, British
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Page : 494 pages
File Size : 37,8 MB
Release : 1851
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Page : 490 pages
File Size : 20,75 MB
Release : 1851
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Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,59 MB
Release : 1887
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Author : Adrian Desmond
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 30,31 MB
Release : 2024-05-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1805112422
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.
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Page : 572 pages
File Size : 37,79 MB
Release : 1984
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Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Page : 810 pages
File Size : 13,31 MB
Release : 1885
Category : English literature
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Page : 330 pages
File Size : 11,60 MB
Release : 1859
Category : Electronic journals
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Author : American Geographical and Statistical Society
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Page : 342 pages
File Size : 42,10 MB
Release : 1859
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Author : Mercantile Library Association (NEW YORK)
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Page : 100 pages
File Size : 33,1 MB
Release : 1852
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