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The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
por Winchester, Simon
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- Bom
- Brochura
- first
- Condição
- Bom
- ISBN 10
- 0060931809
- ISBN 13
- 9780060931803
- Livreiro
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Tipp City, Ohio, United States
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Following the hugely successful hardback, this extraordinary tale of the father of modern geology looks set to be the non fiction paperback for 2002. 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 in 1769 his life was beset by troubles: he was imprisoned for debt, turned out of his home, his work was plagiarised, his wife went insane and the scientific establishment shunned him. It was not until 1829, when a Yorkshire aristocrat recognised his genius, that he was returned to London in triumph: The Map That Changed the World is his story.
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- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 01043968
- Título
- The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
- Autor
- Winchester, Simon
- Formato/Encadernação
- Brochura
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Bom
- Edição
- 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0060931809
- ISBN 13
- 9780060931803
- Editorial
- Perennial Library
- Local de publicação
- New York
- Data de publicação
- 2002
- Catálogos de livreiros
- Geology; History - General;
- Size
- Octavo
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