Foot-prints of the Creator, or, The asterolepis of Stromness
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Foot-prints of the Creator, or, The asterolepis of Stromness
（Cambridge library collection, . Darwin）
Cambridge University Press, 2009
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"This digitally printed version 2009"--T.p. verso
Facsim. of ed. published: London : Johnstone and Hunter, 1849
Includes bibliographical references
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The geological writings of Hugh Miller (1802-56) did much to publicise this relatively new science. After an early career in banking in Scotland, Miller became editor of a newly founded Edinburgh newspaper, The Witness, in which he published a series of his own articles based on his geological research, a collection of which was issued as a book, The Old Red Sandstone, in 1841, and led to the Devonian geological period becoming known as the 'Age of the Fishes'. Footprints of the Creator (1849) described his reconstruction of the extinct fish he had discovered in the Old Red Sandstone and argued, on theological grounds, that their perfection of development disproved the current Lamarckian theory of evolution. The book, illustrated with woodcuts, was written partly as a response to the then anonymous Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1884), also reissued in this series.
Table of Contents
- 1. Stromness and its asterolepis
- 2. The development hypothesis and its consequences
- 3. The recent history of the asterolepis
- 4. Cerebral development of the earlier vertebrata
- 5. The asterolepis
- 6. Fishes of the silurian rocks, upper and lower
- 7. High standing of the placoids
- 8. The placoid brain
- 9. The progress of degradation
- 10. Evidence of the silurian molluscs
- 11. Superposition not parental relation
- 12. Lamarckian hypothesis of the origin of plants
- 13. The two floras, marine and terrestrial
- 14. The development hypothesis in its embryotic state
- 15. Final causes.
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