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THE EXTRAORDINARY TALE OF THE FATHER OF MODERN GEOLOGY
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 inā¦
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Winchesterās book is a biography of William Smith, the orphaned son of a village blacksmith. It is the story of one manās passion, triumph, and tragedy. In his youth Smith was engaged in digging canals in England. Through careful observation of the fossils, he was the first to document the sequential layers of earthās history. His geologic map, completed in 1815, heralded the beginning of a new science, the science of geology.Ā
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