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Biography of William Smith, the farmer’s son who made the world’s first geological map despite debt, plagiarism, and class barriers.
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THE EXTRAORDINARY TALE OF THE FATHER OF MODERN GEOLOGY 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 troubled: 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 Yor...
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Debtors’ prison, eviction, wife’s insanity, plagiarism, ostracism
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