Fossils of All Kinds Woodward Paperback Cambridge University Press 9781108068536

Name: Fossils of All Kinds Woodward Paperback Cambridge University Press 9781108068536
Brand: John Woodward

John Woodward

Fossils of All KindsDigested into a Method, Suitable to their Mutual Relation and Affinity\nAuthor(s): John Woodward\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108068536, 978-1108068536\nSynopsis\nTo the naturalist John Woodward (c.[tel], 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 collec.