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William Smith was not rich or well connected, but his passion for rocks and fossils, and his twenty-year obsession with single-handedly mapping the geology of Britain made him one of the most significant men of the nineteenth century. However his vision cost him dear - his wife went mad, his work was stolen by jealous colleagues who eventually ruined him, and he was imprisoned for debt.Simon Winchester tells the fascinating story of 'Strata' Smith, a man who crossed boundaries of class, wealth and science to produce a map that fundamentally changed the way we view the world.
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The Map That Changed the World, Simon Winchester
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2002
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- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Simon Winchester
- Verlag
- Perennial
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2002
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 352
- ISBN10
- 0060931809
- ISBN13
- 9780060931803
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Sachbücher, Historisches Thema, Karten & Reisen, Wahre Geschichten, Biografien, Wissenschaft & Mathematik, Wissenschaft, Geologie & Mineralogie, Karten & Atlanten, England, Geologie, Schicksale der Menschen, Wissenschaftler, Kartografie, Bergbau, Fossilien
- Erstveröffentlichung
- 2001
- Originaltitel
- The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
- Bewertung
- 3,85 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- William Smith was not rich or well connected, but his passion for rocks and fossils, and his twenty-year obsession with single-handedly mapping the geology of Britain made him one of the most significant men of the nineteenth century. However his vision cost him dear - his wife went mad, his work was stolen by jealous colleagues who eventually ruined him, and he was imprisoned for debt.Simon Winchester tells the fascinating story of 'Strata' Smith, a man who crossed boundaries of class, wealth and science to produce a map that fundamentally changed the way we view the world.