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Smith was born on 23 March 1769, in Churchill, Oxfordshire, the son of John Smith (1735–1777), the village blacksmith, and his wife Ann (née Smith; 1745–1807). [3] His father died when Smith was eight years old, and he and his siblings were raised by his uncle, a farmer also named William Smith. [4]
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The Map that Changed the World is a 2001 book by Simon Winchester about English geologist William Smith and his great achievement, the first geological map of England, Wales and southern Scotland. Smith's was the first national-scale geological map, and by far the most accurate of its time.
31 July – The 1815 Philadelphia train accident, a boiler explosion, kills at least 13 people in County Durham. 1 August – William Smith publishes the first national geological map of the UK, A Delineation of the Strata of England and Wales, with part of Scotland. [8]
The year 1815 in science and technology involved some significant events, ... William Smith publishes the first national geological map of the United Kingdom, ...
[4] [5] Maclure's map shows the distribution of five classes of rock in what are now only the eastern states of the present-day US. The first geologic map of Great Britain was created by William Smith in 1815 using principles (Smith's laws) first formulated by Smith. [6]
Geological map of Great Britain by William Smith, published 1815 Engraving from William Smith's 1815 monograph on identifying strata by fossils. In early nineteenth-century Britain, catastrophism was adapted with the aim of reconciling geological science with religious traditions of the biblical Great Flood.
A first draft of the geological map was presented to the Geological Society as early as 1812, but there was dissatisfaction with the quality of the engraving of the topographical map, resulting in the base map not being ready until 1814. In 1815, William Smith published his famous geological map and when Greenough finally published his map five ...