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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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- Année de publication
- 2002
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- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Simon Winchester
- Éditeur
- Perennial
- Publié
- 2002
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 352
- ISBN10
- 0060931809
- ISBN13
- 9780060931803
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Nonfiction, Thème historique, Cartes et voyages, Histoires vraies, Biographies, Science et Mathématiques, Science, Géologie & Minéralogie, Cartes & Atlas, Angleterre, Géologie, Destins humains, Scientifiques, Cartographie, Minerai, Fossiles, Fossilisation
- Première publication
- 2001
- Titre original
- The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
- Évaluation
- 3,85 sur 5
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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.