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Hugh Miller Quotes
Their humble dwellings were of their own rearing; it was they themselves who had broken in their little fields; from time immemorial, far beyond the reach of history, had they possessed their mountain holdings.
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| Birth: | 10th October, 1802 |
| Death: | 24th December, 1856 |
| Nationality: | Scottish |
| Profession: | Geologist, Writer |
About
Hugh Miller was born in Cromarty, Scotland. He was a Scottish geologist and writer who was considered one of the finest geological writers of the 19th century and whose writings were widely successful in arousing public interest in geologic history. He wrote a brilliant geological series for it, part of which was published in book form as The Old Red Sandstone. In this work he described his discoveries, in Cromarty, of fossils found in formations of the Devonian strata. Of his remaining works on geology, Footprints of the Creator was the most nearly original. The book recorded Miller’s reconstruction of the extinct fishes he had discovered in the Old Red Sandstone and contended, on theological grounds, that their perfection of development disproved the theory of evolution. He also discovered the fish species subsequently known as Pterichthyodes milleri. It was largely from Miller’s writings that the Devonian Period became known as the Age of Fishes.
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