This is a rather famous map; indeed, it was even the subject of a recent book. What is it, who made it, and where was this picture taken?
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Jeffrey Shallit
Recurrent thoughts about mathematics, science, politics, music, religion, and
Recurrent thoughts about mathematics, science, politics, music, religion, and
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Jeffrey Shallit
American mathematician, professor of computer science at a major Canadian university, & skeptic.
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6 comments:
No google honest - hence only partial answer.
It looks like the first geological map - I did a geology course a year or so back.
He worked as a navigation engineer building the Railways, or was it the canals?
That's all I have.
It's The Map that Changed the Word prepared by William Smith and published in 1815.
The book, by Simon Winchester, is wonderful, one of the best popular science books of all time.
I don't know where you took the photo. Probably London—the UK version not the Ontario version.
The Geological Society of London
http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/smith_map
The Map that changed the World, nice! Here's my pic of it on a recent Trip to London, this was in the NHM:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=253871171373223&l=1499956bd1
Believe it or not, we found in the Tate Gallery in London. Not the place you'd expect to see it!
"Strata" Smith's geological 'layers of England' map.
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