Q&A John Henry Geological historian

摘要

How did William Smith get his start? He was a very practical man with I a weak formal education - he left school when he was 11 years old. You would not have expected him, a boy from a small village in Oxfordshire, to have accomplished what he did. His ability to draw and to observe spurred his uncle to get him books on geology and surveying. Eventually Smith was apprenticed to a surveyor, and he was off on his first assignment at just 22.