
Fossils of All Kinds
Digested into a Method, Suitable to their Mutual Relation and Affinity
John Woodward(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 20. March 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-108-06853-6 (ISBN)
Description
To the naturalist John Woodward (c.1665-1728), fossils were 'much neglected, and left wholly to the Care and Treatment of Miners and meer Mechanicks'. He had built up a large personal collection of these samples of the Earth's petrified remains and spent much of his life developing a system for their classification, the results of which were published in this important illustrated work of 1728. A distinguished physician and a fellow of the Royal Society, Woodward wrote extensively on scientific topics, and had developed a theory that fossils were creatures destroyed in the flood described in the Bible. These ideas attracted critics and supporters in equal measure, but his contribution to techniques of fossil collection and classification were influential. In the present work, he devotes the early chapters to questions of description and classification, while the later sections contain some of his letters to his scientific contemporaries, including Isaac Newton.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
7 Plates, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
322 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-108-06853-6 (9781108068536)
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Person
John Woodward is an author reborn having taking time away from the writing game to work in business and training and coaching. As a younger man, John specialised in poetry and the writing of fantasy and science fiction short stories. An active sportsman, John was a keen soccer player who loved the game but lacked the time and commitment to play at a higher level. He always loved writing however, and recently returned to the fold of inspiring authors who simply love to tell stories. This first attempt at the genre was inspired by his own pet cats, especially Oscar, a big larger than life ginger tom with a huge bushy tail.
Content
Preface; A methodical distribution of fossils into their proper classes; Letters relating to the method of fossils; Appendices.