Smith, William 1769-1839

Overview

Works:	197 works in 440 publications in 3 languages and 5,889 library holdings
Genres:	Biography Maps History Geological maps Sources
Roles:	Author, Honoree, Publisher, Cartographer, Dedicator, Other
Classifications:	QE22.S6, 551.700924

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Most widely held works about William Smith

The map that changed the world : William Smith and the birth of modern geology by Simon Winchester( Book )
The map that changed the world : [William Smith and the birth of modern geology] by Simon Winchester( Recording )
Eureka! : 50 scientists who shaped human history by John Grant( Book )
Memoirs of William Smith by John Phillips( Book )
The map that changed the world by Simon Winchester( Recording )

William Smith; his maps and memoirs by T Sheppard( Book )
Strata : how William Smith drew the first map of the earth in 1801 & inspired the science of geology by John L Morton( Book )
Memoirs of William Smith, LL. D., author of the "Map of the strata of England and Wales" by John Phillips( Book )
William Smith: father of English geology, 1769-1839; a brief memoir of his work in the Bath District by Rosemary Pickford( Book )
William Smith and the birth of stratigraphy by Leslie Reginald Cox( Book )
The origins of stratigraphy, 1719-1801 : an historical guidebook to the early days of stratigraphical geology near Bath, Somerset, as seen in the works of John Strachey and William Smith by John Fuller( Book )
"Strata Smith" and his stratigraphic coss sections, 1819 : a review of facts worth knowing about the origin of stratigraphic geology in the mind of William Smith (1769-1839), an English country surveyor and civil engineer by J. G. C. M Fuller( Book )
William Smith (1769-1839) A bibliography of his publlished writings, maps and geological sections, printed and lithographed by Joan M Eyles( Book )
Map : poems after William Smith's geological map of 1815( Book )
Address delivered on July 10th, 1926, on William Smith "the Father of English Geology" by Francis Arthur Bather( Book )
New light on William Smith and his work by Leslie Reginald Cox( Book )
The history of geology : William Smith's cross sections, 1819 by American Association of Petroleum Geologists( )
William Smith : a memoir of "the father of British geology" (1842)( Book )
Gai bian shi jie de di tu : yi wei ke xue yan jiu zhe de gu ji yu rong yao by Simon Winchester( Book )
Addresses delivered at the anniversary meeting of the Geological Society of London, on the 18th February, 1831 by Adam Sedgwick( Book )

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Most widely held works by William Smith

Observations on the utility, form and management of water meadows, and the draining and irrigating of peat bogs : with an account of Prisley Bog and other extraordinary improvements, conducted for His Grace the Duke of Bedford, Thomas William Coke, Esq. M.P. and others by William Smith( )

17 editions published in 1806 in English and held by 222 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Stratigraphical system of organized fossils by William Smith( Book )

19 editions published between 1817 and 2015 in English and held by 65 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

William Smith (1768–1839) was a civil engineer and canal surveyor known as the 'Father of Geology' who developed and pioneered the concept of stratigraphy. Through his work with canal building Smith become familiar with many different types of rock throughout Britain. He realized that fossils were specific to a certain strata of rock and that rock strata could be identified and correlated by the fossils they contained. Smith used this knowledge to publish the renowned first geological map of Britain in 1815. This volume, first published in 1817, contains Smith's catalogue of his fossil collection for the British Museum. Smith catalogues the fossils according to the rock strata and location in which they were found, together with a brief description of the fossil. This volume was the first published example of rock strata used as a cataloguing principle which demonstrated the practical nature of Smith's system of stratigraphy

A memoir to the map and delineation of the strata of England and Wales with part of Scotland by William Smith( Book )

8 editions published between 1815 and 2015 in English and held by 48 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"This is a reproduction of William Smith's famous Memoir that accompanies the 1815 geological map of 'England and Wales with a part of Scotland' (series 53, issued between 2nd November 1815 and 17th December 1815). Published by the British Geological Survey from an original held in its library."--Back cover

Strata identified by organized fossils : containing prints on colored paper of the most characteristic specimens in each stratum by William Smith( Book )

12 editions published between 1816 and 1967 in English and Undetermined and held by 48 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A delineation of the strata of England and Wales, with part of Scotland, exhibiting the collieries and mines, the marshes and fen lands originally overflowed by the sea, and the varieties of soil according to the variations in the substrata, illustrated by the most descriptive names by William Smith( )

7 editions published between 1815 and 2004 in English and held by 38 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Observations on the recent adjudication of the Wollaston Medal to Mr. William Smith for his geological discoveries( Book )

3 editions published between 1831 and 1977 in English and held by 22 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A new geological map of England and Wales : with the inland navigations ; exhibiting the districts of coal and other sites of mineral tonnage by William Smith( )

5 editions published between 1824 and 2004 in English and held by 19 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Geological map of Oxfordshire by William Smith( )

4 editions published between 1820 and 1993 in English and held by 17 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

William Smith y sus trabajos de geologia estratigraf́ia by Angel V Borrello( Book )

2 editions published in 1950 in Spanish and Undetermined and held by 13 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Geological map of Buckinghamshire by William Smith( )

7 editions published between 1820 and 1974 in English and held by 12 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Geological map of Durham by William Smith( )

5 editions published between 1824 and 1993 in English and held by 12 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A delineation of the strata of England and Wales, with part of Scotland; exhibiting the collieries and mines, the marshes and fen land originally overflowed by the sea, and the varieties of soil according to the variations in the substrata, illustrated by the most descriptive names by W. Smith by William Smith( )

3 editions published in 1815 in English and held by 11 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

William Smith 1815 geological map : a delineation of the strata of England and Wales, with part of Scotland : exhibiting the collieries and mines, the marshes and fen lands originally overflowed by the sea, and the varieties of soil according to the variations in the substrata : illustrated by the most descriptive names by William Smith( )

2 editions published between 2013 and 2014 in English and held by 10 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Geological map of Berkshire by William Smith( )

2 editions published between 1819 and 1993 in English and held by 10 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A delineation of the strata of Scotland, England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man : exhibiting the distribution of the different bedrock units as they would appear if the partial cover of superficial sediments, deposited by glaciers and rivers during the last two million years or so, were removed : and illustrated by the most descriptive names by British Geological Survey( )

1 edition published in 2015 in English and held by 10 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Geological map of Gloucestershire by William Smith( )

5 editions published between 1819 and 1974 in English and held by 9 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Stratigraphical system of organized fossils with reference to the specimens of the original geological collection in the British Museum explaining their state of preservation and their use in identifying British strata by William Smith( Book )

5 editions published in 1817 in English and held by 8 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Report (addressed to the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings) as the result of an inquiry : undertaken under the authority of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, by Charles Barry Esquire, H.T. De la Beche Esquire, F.R.S. and F.G.S., William Smith Esquire, D.C.L. and F.G.S., and Mr. Charles H. Smith, with reference to the selection of stone for building the new Houses of Parliament by Charles Barry( Book )

3 editions published in 1839 in English and held by 8 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A Delineation of the strata of England and Wales, with part of Scotland : exhibiting the collieries and mines, the marshes and fen lands originally overflowed by the sea, and the varieties of soil according to the variations in the substrata : illustrated by the most descriptive names by William Smith( )

2 editions published between 1815 and 2001 in English and held by 6 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Observations on the utility, form and management of water meadows, and the draining and irrigating of peat bogs, with an account of Prisley Bog, and other extraordinary improvements by William Smith( Book )

2 editions published in 1806 in English and held by 5 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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