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Spinster Mary Anning, uneducated and poor, was of the wrong sex, wrong class and wrong religion, but fate decreed that she was exactly the right person in the right place and time to pioneer the emerging science of palaeontology, the study of fossils.
Jurassic Mary
Mary Anning and the Primeval Monsters
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256 pages
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3 March 2014
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Summary
The life of one of the pioneers of the emerging science of geology whose discoveries were often credited in her time to others, due to her gender and class. Mary Anning (1799-1847) was one of the pioneers of the emerging science of geology, and the first woman palaeontologist to make important discoveries. When she was just 12, she discovered the first whole ichthyosaurus skeleton; later, aged 22, she found the first whole skeleton of a plesiosaurus, and this find gained her international fa…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780750959247 |
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| ISBN-10: | 075095924X |
| Author: | Patricia Pierce |
| Publisher: | The History Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | The History Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 3 March 2014 |
| Weight: | 420g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 10mm |
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Patricia Pierce
Patricia Pierce is the author of Old London Bridge and The Great Shakespeare Fraud.
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