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— William Smith Stratigraphical System of Organized Fossils (1817), ix-x. Science quotes on: | Antiquary (4) | Antiquity (34) | Change (639) | Coin (13) | Earth (1076) | Element (322) | Formation (100) | Fossil (143) | Inhabitant (50) | Naturalist (79) | Organization (120) | Regular (48) | Show (353) | Various (205) | Water (503)
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William 'Strata' Smith (1769-1839), the Father of English Geology. I have often times wished for a mappe of England, coloured according to the colours of the earth; with markes of the fossils and minerals. [John Aubrey, ‘The Natural History of Wiltshire’, (1691)] Portrait of William Smith by Hugues Fourau, 1837 (GSL/POR/15) In August 1815 ...
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With the recent publication of Simon Winchester's The Map that Changed the World, a new audience of readers were awakened to the relatively unsung achievements of an 18th century Englishman. William Smith's unique map, depicting the geology of England, Wales, and part of Scotland helped to shape the economic and scientific development of Britain, j...
William Smith was born at Churchill, Oxfordshire in 1769. The son of the village blacksmith, Smith was the eldest of five children. After elementary education at the village school, where he developed a liking for geometry and drawing, he decided to teach himself the skills of surveying, possibly because there were an increasing number of openings ...
By 1799, Smith was using both his skills as a surveyor and the knowledge gained from his observations in the field to draw up a geological map. This first map was circular in form, covered the area around Bath, and was exhibited at the Bath Agricultural Society. At the same time, Smith continued to plan the publication of a treatise describing his ...
The next major mapping publication was Smith's Geological Atlas, again based on Cary's topographical maps, comprising the maps of 21 counties which were published between 1819 and 1824. Despite the importance of his ideas and publications, Smith continued to find recognition elusive and it was not until 1831, when the Geological Society awarded him...
The forerunner of the Geological Survey
The main focus of Smith's work was to apply his observations and ideas to the everyday needs of the canal builders, quarry- and mine-owners, landowners and agriculturists who were underpinning the Industrial Revolution. He talked at meetings about geology and its economic value. The titles of his map of 1815 — the first ever large-scale geological map of a country—and the subsequent 1820 edition, demonstrate the commercial nature of the mapping. The County maps (1819–24) represent a first att...
Mapping for the 21st Century
Two hundred years after the publication in 1801 of Smith's first map of England and Wales, the BGS announced another major advance in geological mapping for the UK. October 2001 saw the first release in digital vector format of all the 1:50 000 scale geological map data that were available for Great Britain BGS Geology 50k — covering over 95% of the landmass. Since 2001, BGS Geology 50k has been continually revised and is now on version 6. Other datasets at scales from 1:10 000 to 1:625 000 a...
Works by William Smith
A delineation of the strata of England and Wales with part of Scotland; exhibiting the collieries and mines, the marshes and fen lands originally overflowed by the sea, and the varieties of soil according to the variations in the substrata, illustrated by the most descriptive names [ca. 1:313 800], by W Smith. London: J Cary, 1815. Scale ca. 1 313 800. [Geological view and sections], W Smith and R Thomas. London: John Cary, 1817–1819. Contents: geological section from London to Snowdon showin...
Works about William Smith
BATHER F A. 1926. Address delivered on July 10th, 1926, on William Smith “the Father of English Geology”. Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution. COX, L R. 1942. New light on William Smith and his work. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, Vol. 25, 1-99. DOUGLAS, J A. 1949. An early list of strata by William Smith. Geological Magazine, Vol. 86, No. 3,180-188. [A reproduction of an unrecorded manuscript written by William Smith in 1797 in its original form and spelling with...
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Apr 9, 2024 · William Smith was an English engineer and geologist who is best known for his development of the science of stratigraphy. Smith’s great geologic map of England and Wales (1815) set the style for modern geologic maps, and many of the colourful names he applied to the strata are still in use today.
William 'Strata' Smith (23 March 1769 – 28 August 1839) was an English geologist, credited with creating the first detailed, nationwide geological map of any country.
May 8, 2008 · William Smith was born on March 23, 1769. When he was eight, his father died, and his mother sent him to live on an uncle’s farm. Smith’s own nephew would later recount how the boy’s new guardian “was little pleased with his nephew’s love of collecting ‘pundibs’ and ‘poundstones’” that littered the farm.
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