The Map That Changed the World
Subtitle: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: April 28, 2009
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780061767906
Subjects: History -- Europe -- England; Professional & Technical -- Professional Science -- Earth Sciences -- Geology; Science -- Earth Sciences -- Geology; Science -- History & Philosophy -- History of Science
First sentence: The last day of August 1819, a Tuesday, dawned gray, showery, and refreshingly cool in London, promising a welcome end to a weeklong spell of close and muggy weather that seemed to have put all the capital's citizens in a nettlesome, liverish mood.