#geological map

[52booksproject]

Book 44: The Map That Changed the World

RNG put me in the 500s, and I kinda forgot to go deeper so I ended up with general science books. There were a ton of all time greats, but I ended up with Simon Winchester's The Map That Changed the World.

This book was about William Smith (1769-1839) a groundbreaking geologist who started out as a surveyor/coal mine manager/canal builder/land drainer. He made the first large-scale geological map in existence. Even after listening to the book twice I'm not entirely sure what the rock he mapped out was, I mean, there are lots of layers of rocks under places, right? I guess it was the type of rock just under the surface of the ground? Anyway, it is considered by many to have birthed the science of geology and kickstarted investigations into the age of the Earth, etc.

William Smith himself had a hard life, his blacksmith father died when he was a child and his mother abandoned him to his cheapskate uncle who Smith had to borrow against his inheritance to get basic reference materials that would further his career as a surveyor. Eventually he ended up in debtors prison after some speculation went wrong and spending on making his extensive geological map. He was prevented from joining the prominent Geological Society by a rival who also made a rival map that stole from Smith's and cut into his sales which landed him in the debtor's prison (Wikipedia disputes this as the rival map came out after Smith landed in jail, but this book shows how anticipation of the rival map cut into his sales, not just when the map finally came out.) Smith's map was championed by our old friend Joseph Banks of the ever-present-in-these-books Royal Society.

Should you read this book: Sure, it's interesting and has lots of good facts about the life of William Smith and life and science in the 1700s-1800s. The author is a bit British, throwing around names like Boswell as if we all know him offhand here in America (I know him, just not offhand).

ART PROJECT: It was kind of impossible to not do the map, and I thought I'd laser burn it then hand color it, but it turns out I don't have the patience to hand color it like William Smith did. So here it is laser burned anyway.

[kanadia]

the geological society of artists

[mapsontheweb]

Geological map of the United States done in 1980

[lindahall]

Charles Lyell – Scientist of the Day

Charles Lyell, a Scottish geologist, was born Nov 14, 1797. 

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[one-real-wrimonkey]

I’m such a dork for small world building and environmental details so here are some headcanons I have for Remnant (RWBY)

Argus is cold in winter but susceptible to heatwaves and wildfires in summer

Atlas has short winter days and long summer days but the Haven has similar day lengths across the year

Many homes in Atlas and Mantle have airing cupboards

Each of the kingdoms has differing exports based on their environments.

Atlas relies on imports of food and agriculture based goods from the other three kingdoms and its key export is dust and technology.

Vacuo also relies on agricultural imports due to much of its terrain being desert.

Vale has the most temperate climate but still has its fair share of summer heatwaves and winter snowfall

Mistral has the widest range of climates of any of the four kingdoms including temperate and rainforest environments.

Mistrals rainforests make it a key exporter of medical supplies and advancements.

Menagerie has more limited trade agreements than the four kingdoms but does have a few key exports.

The east of Mistral has heavy volcanism

[zuppizup]

Geology you say. I'm listening...........

Response to this post, I can only assume. 😏

Me, writing a ~200k fic where Callum makes a geological map of the magical rocks in the Pentarchy and also maybe Rayllum people bang?

It's more likely than you'd think...

[iamthepulta]

Geologic Map of Ecuador, by Theodor Wolf, 1870

[unproduciblesmackdown]

what in the. see this is why it's a good thing that multiplayer videogames especially are about having fun & being yourself like what do you mean disguised spies automatically had the speed of the disguise's class & everyone's like yea if i wasn't always going for the scout disguise i'd kill myself right now. i'd be like haha can't catch Me out supposedly the extra slow or extra fast class >:) i am a harmless engineer

[sidereon-spaceace]

Oh lord, I'm about to get launched full force back into a special interest, aren't I

[whimsicaltwine]

gahhhh argh I'm a history student for a reason man, I'm working ahead and reading up on pre modern city structure and it's so much more interesting and easy to understand,,,,, the author is giving me new databases to explore,,,,,, ohhhhh my god I cannot wait to be done with the geography

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

the hazard of being a night owl during nano is that Calendar Days and Writing Days aren't actually perfect equivalents, so i end up with asinine timekeeping like "november 18, technically," and "november 18, actually," scribbled in my margins to keep track of nighttime vs daytime writing

[kanadia]

🏔🌋🌈✨ test artwork for my concept album based on geology, Typical Forever. Discover more about it here.

coming 2024!

[grassam]

American geology

[mapsontheweb]

Geological era of rocks in the British Isles.

[lindahall]

Charles-François Exchaquet – Scientist of the Day

Charles-François Exchaquet, a Swiss relief cartographer, foundry operator, and alpine climber, was born in Court in the Bernese Alps, on Dec. 6, 1746.

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