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Born in Marseilles, Louis Simonin (1830-86) became a leading mining
engineer of his age. He travelled widely on government and private
commissions, particularly around the United States, where he was
held in very high esteem. His posthumous renown rests primarily on
this substantial work on mining, first published in 1867. The book
is divided into three parts, dealing with coal mining, metal
mining, and the mining of precious stones. It covers metallurgy and
mineralogy, the history of mining, and techniques, methods and
equipment. Bringing the struggles of miners to life, and enhanced
by numerous illustrations by some of the leading engravers of the
day, the book is regarded as having inspired and informed Emile
Zola, whose great novel Germinal (1885) depicts coal miners' lives
during a strike. Simonin's work reached a wide readership in his
native France, and this English translation appeared in 1869.
Title: Mines and Miners; or underground life. Translated, adapted
to the present state of British Mining, and edited by H. W. Bristow
... Illustrated, etc.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print
EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United
Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries
holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats:
books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps,
stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14
million books, along with substantial additional collections of
manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The
GENERAL HISTORICAL collection includes books from the British
Library digitised by Microsoft. This varied collection includes
material that gives readers a 19th century view of the world.
Topics include health, education, economics, agriculture,
environment, technology, culture, politics, labour and industry,
mining, penal policy, and social order. ++++The below data was
compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic
record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool
in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library
Simonin, Louis; Bristow, Henry William; 1869]. 8 . 7104.e.22.
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