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Map Man

BBC Two
on BBC Two England

6/8. William Smith 's Geological Map of England and Wales (1815). No one thought rocks were that important until they studied Smith's revolutionary, multi-coloured geological map of Britain. Years before Darwin, Smith overturned all the existing ideas about mineral prospecting, fossils and the origins of the Earth. Modern explorer Nicholas Crane 's investigation examines how Smith arrived at his ideas.
Producer David Wilson ; Series producer Michael Waterhouse (AD) Adam Hart-Davis on "the father of English geology": page 30

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William Smith
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Nicholas Crane
Producer:
David Wilson
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Adam Hart-Davis
Source: Radio Times

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