Eighteenth-century land surveyor William Smith was a rock star. And we mean that quite literally — Smith’s 1815 map of England, Wales and part of Scotland was the world’s first look at the ...

A rare early copy of William Smith’s 1815 Geological Map of England and Wales, previously thought lost, has been uncovered by Geological Society archivists. The new map has been digitized and ...

MR. SHEPPARD has spared no pains in making bibliography attractive. He has reproduced by photography original title-pages and maps; he has added portraits, and views of William Smith's homes at ...

Winchester, whose previous effort was the bestseller The Professor and the Madman, tells the remarkable story of William Smith, whose geologically correct map of England and Wales, dated 1815 ...

The first major geologic map turns 200 Looking back at William Smith’s ground-breaking map of England.

This year marks the 200th anniversary since William Smith published his life’s work, a geological map of England and Wales, in 1815. While “Strata Smith” and his map are well-known among ...

2015 represents the bicentenary of the William Smith Map, one of the most important geologic maps ever created and the first national geologic map ever produced. To celebrate, GeoRef, the world's ...

Visitors to Bowlees Visitor Centre, in Upper Teesdale, were the first to see geologist William Smith 's map on Friday night as part of a new geo-heritage project launched by the North Pennines ...

Strata: William Smith’s Geological Maps edited by the Oxford University Museum of Natural History University of Chicago Press, 2020 ($65) Strata are the ribboned horizontal layers of minerals ...

The first geological map of a nation was made 200 years ago by British surveyor William Smith; the rediscovery of a first-edition copy in the archives of the Geological Society of London was ...

A RARE and particularly well-preserved map created by the ‘father of English geology’ William Smith can be seen at Scarborough Art Gallery.