The Map That Changed the World
Subtitle: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
Contributors: Soun Vannithone (Illustrator)
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: August 7, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9780060193614
Subjects: History; Smith, William,; Geology, Stratigraphic; Earth Sciences - Geology; Science; Scientists - General; Biography/Autobiography; Great Britain; Europe - Great Britain - General; History / General; Smith, William; Stratigraphic Geology; 1769-1839; Biography; Geologists
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.