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The map that changed the world : a tale of rocks, ruin and redemption

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The first geological map was made by an Oxfordshire farmer's son called William Smith. His life was beset with troubles: his work was plagiarized, he was imprisoned for debt, his wife went insane and the scientific establishment shunned him. This is the tale of his life and work in modern geology.

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The map that changed the world : a tale of rocks, ruin and redemption, Simon Winchester

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Jazyk
anglicky
Vydavateľ
Penguin Books
Rok vydania
2002
Väzba
mäkká
Počet strán
352
ISBN10
0140280391
ISBN13
9780140280395
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Prvé vydanie
2001
Pôvodný názov
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
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3,85 z 5
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The first geological map was made by an Oxfordshire farmer's son called William Smith. His life was beset with troubles: his work was plagiarized, he was imprisoned for debt, his wife went insane and the scientific establishment shunned him. This is the tale of his life and work in modern geology.