Smith, William The Map that C...

Smith, William

The Map that Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of late Geology. Simon Winchester. New York: HarperCollins, 2001 329 pp $2600

"The bald claim of Winchester's title includes not an ounce of hype The first geological maps changed our basic general [i]or[/i] abstract notion of time's length and life's history in the principally radical way imaginable. I can summarize my feelings about Simon Winchester's work in a statement that I do not intend as a disparagement of his fine effort, unless as an admirer's attempt to raise a serious issue about a startling fascinating, ...