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- 352 páginas
- 13 horas de lectura
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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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- Publicado en
- 2002
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- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Simon Winchester
- Editorial
- Perennial
- Publicado en
- 2002
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- Páginas
- 352
- ISBN10
- 0060931809
- ISBN13
- 9780060931803
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- No ficción, Tema histórico, Mapas y viajes, Historias reales, Biografías, Ciencia y Matemáticas, Ciencia, Mapas & Atlas, Inglaterra, Geología y Mineralogía, Geología, Destinos humanos, Científicos, Cartografía, Minería, Fósiles, Restos Paleontológicos
- Primera publicación
- 2001
- Título original
- The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
- Calificación
- 3,85 de 5
- Descripción
- 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.