William smith scientist biography outline

"It&#;s all there locked in the stone,

the truth is told in fossilized bone."

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"Fossils have been long studied as great curiosities, collected with great pains, treasured with great care and at a great expense, and shown and admired with as much pleasure as a child's hobby-horse is shown and admired by himself and his playfellows, because it is pretty; and this has been done by thousands who have never paid the least regard to that wonderful order and regularity with which nature has disposed of these singular productions, and assigned to each class its peculiar stratum."

William Smith, notes written January 5,

William Smith was born March 23, in the village of Churchill, in the county of Oxfordshire, into a respectable farming family.

His father died when he was seven, so his mother brought him to the farm of his uncle.
And just here the young William makes an encounter that will change his life. In these parts of Oxfordshire