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- Seller notes
- ISBN
- 9780670884070
- Book Title
- The Map That Changed the World: the Tale of William Smith and the Birth of a Science
- Publisher
- Penguin Books LTD
- Publication Year
- 2001
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 224mm
- Genre
- Biographies & True Stories
- Topic
- Geography & Geosciences, Natural History, History
- Item Width
- 145mm
- Item Weight
- 546g
- Number of Pages
- 352 Pages
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In the summer of 1815 an extraordinary hand-painted map was published in London. Some eight feet tall and six feet wide, brightly coloured - in sea-blue, green, bright yellow, orange, umber - it presented England and Wales in a beguiling and unfamiliar mixture of lines and patches and stippled shapes. It was the product of one man's obsession with rocks, a passion that sustained him whilst the rest of his life slid into ruin. For nearly 20 years, an Oxfordshire blacksmith's son named William Smith journeyed across Britain investigating and naming the layers of rock beneath his feet. Self-taught and determined, Smith had great expertise in practical geology, and this evolving science demanded a new sort of delineation. The beautifully executed map he produced was the first of its kind and transformed the way in which the world was understood. It was a document that laid the groundwork for the making of great fortunes in oil, iron and tin, and, elsewhere, in diamonds, platinum and silver, and was key to the development of one of the great fields of modern science. Smith's was a remarkable achievement, and all the more astonishing for having been completed single-handedly and without financial or professional support. Shatteringly, such heroic and painstaking work exacted a terrible price: imprisoned for debt, Smith was turned out of his home; his work was plagiarized; the scientific establishment turned its back on his trouble; and Smith's wife was diagnozed insane and he himself fell ill. It was not until 1829 that, in a fairy-tale twist of fate, Smith returned to London in triumph, to be hailed as a genius. Simon Winchester, best-selling author of The Surgeon of Crowthorne and himself the holder of a degree in geology, enters the dramatic world of Strata Smith to tell his moving and inspiring story. Celebrating the unique geology of the British Isles, The Map That Changed the World resurrects the forgotten pioneer whose passion for fossils came above all else.
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Penguin Books LTD
ISBN-13
9780670884070
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Book Title
The Map That Changed the World: the Tale of William Smith and the Birth of a Science
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Geography & Geosciences, Natural History, History
Publication Year
2001
Type
Textbook
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
352 Pages
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Item Height
224mm
Item Width
145mm
Item Weight
546g
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United Kingdom
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A stimulating biography of a most remarkable founder of geology
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An excellent read
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