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The Map That Changed the World: The Tale of William Smith And the Birth of a Science

The Map That Changed the World: The Tale of William Smith And the Birth of a Science

Name: The Map That Changed the World: The Tale of William Smith And the Birth of a Science
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Simon Winchester
ISBN: 9780670884070

Simon Winchester

05/07/2001
Viking

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Couverture de The Map That Changed the World: The Tale of William Smith And the Birth of a Science par Simon Winchester

Résumé

An extraordinary tale of the father of modern geology from the author of the international No.1 bestseller THE SURGEON OF CROWTHORNE. Hidden behind velvet curtains above a stairway in a house in London's Piccadilly is an enormous and beautiful hand-coloured map - the first geological map of anywhere in the world. Its maker was a farmer's son named William Smith. Born in 1769 his life was beset by troubles: he was imprisoned for debt, turned out of his home, his work was plagiarised, his wife went insane and the scientific establishment shunned him. It was not until 1829, when a Yorkshire aristocrat recognised his genius, that he was returned to London in triumph: THE MAP THAT CHANGED THE WORLD is his story.