Winter Lecture: William Smith’s Search for a Money-Earning Career

2015 marks the 200th anniversary of William Smith’s ‘great geological map’, a pivotal moment for the then new science of geology and one which led to Smith being eventually known as ‘the Father of English Geology’. Smith expert Professor Hugh Torrens will explore for the first time his early career which included a spell in a debtors’ prison before he became the engineer on the Somerset Coal Canal.

Suitable for
16-17
18+


Website
www.bristolmuseums.org.uk/bristol-museum-and-art-gallery/whats-on/winter-lecture-william-smiths-search-for-a-money-earning-career/

Source: http://www.culture24.org.uk/sw000007?id=EVENT541702