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 ...

That man was William “Strata” Smith, and his map of the rocks at the surface in England, Wales, and part of Scotland—completed in 1815—was the first major geologic map ever made.

Smith’s Stratigraphic Map of England and Wales. William Smith/BGS So impressive were Smith’s achievements that very little changed for the next 170 years.

THE MAP THAT CHANGED THE WORLD: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology Simon Winchester, . . HarperCollins, $25 (352pp) ISBN 978-0-06-019361-4 ...

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 ...

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 ...

AN original example of a map produced by the 'Father of English Geology' has gone on display as part of a new exhibition. Visitors to Bowlees Visitor Centre, in Upper Teesdale, were the first to ...

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