As usual HRM
uses some extraneous material: a defence of the conduct of Mary, Queen of Scots
, and comment on the recently discovered geological record of the earth. By this she means William Smith
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11 June 1799: Geologist William Smith, aged thirty, dictated...
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11 June 1799
Geologist William Smith
, aged thirty, dictated to two clergymen the information that made up his chart entitled The Table of Strata, forerunner of his pioneering geological map dated 1 August 1815.
1 August 1815: The surveyor William Smith dated his first-ever...
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1 August 1815
The surveyor William Smith
dated his first-ever geological map of Britain; the national Geological Society
cold-shouldered him and published its own map, five years later, which was essentially a plagiarism of his.
Fortey, Richard. “Prophet of the Rocks”. London Review of Books, 9 Aug. 2001, pp. 27-8.
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Winchester, Simon. The Map that Changed the World. HarperCollins, 2001.
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Piozzi, Hester Lynch. The Piozzi Letters. Editors Bloom, Edward A. and Lillian D. Bloom, University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses, 1989–2002, 6 vols.
