Jurassic Mary (eBook)

Patricia Pierce (Autor)

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2006
256 Seiten
The History Press (Verlag)
978-0-7524-9569-9 (ISBN)

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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. Born in Lyme Regis in 1799, Mary learned to collect fossils with her cabinet-maker father. The unstable cliffs and stealthy sea made the task dangerous but after her father died the sale of fossils sustained her family. Mary's fame started as an infant when she survived a lightning strike that killed the three adults around her. Then, aged twelve, she caught the public's attention when she unearthed the skeleton of a 'fish lizard' or Ichthyosaurus. She later found the first Plesiosaurus giganteus, with its extraordinary long neck associated with the Loch Ness monster, and, dramatically, she unearthed the first, still rare, Dimorphodon macronyx, a frightening 'flying dragon' with hand claws and teeth. Yet her many discoveries were announced to the world by male geologists like the irrepressible William Buckland and Sir Henry De La Beche and they often received the credit. In Jurassic Mary Patricia Pierce redresses this imbalance, bringing to life the extraordinary, little-known story of this determined and pioneering woman.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.4.2006
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Mineralogie / Paläontologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: ammonite • ammonite film • ammonite movie • amonite • amonite film • amonite movie • belamite • Charlotte Murchison • charouth • dimorphodon macronyx • Dorset • Elizabeth Philpot • fish lizard skeleton • flying dragon • fossil films|francis lee • fossil lady • fossils • fossil woman • francis lee, ichthyosaur, plesiosaur, pterosaur, henry de la beche, geology films, she sells seashells, charouth, molly anning, megalodon, megaladon, belamite, women scientist, women in science, sharks tooth, sharks teeth • geology films • Henry De la Beche • ichthyosaur • Ichthyosaurus • Jurassic Coast • Kate Winslet • Lyme Regis • male geologists • Mary Anning • mary anning and the primeval monsters • mary anning and the primeval monsters, Jurassic coast, Dorset, Lyme Regis, women in history, women's history, paleontology, fossils, fish lizard skeleton, ichthyosaurus, plesiosaurs giganteus, dimorphodon macronyx, flying dragon, male geologists, william buckland, sir henry de la beche • megaladon • Megalodon • molly anning • paleontology • plesiosaur • plesiosaurs giganteus • pterosaur • Roderick Murchison • Saoirse Ronan • sharks teeth • sharks tooth • she sells seashells • sir henry de la beche|women in history • William Buckland • Women in History • women in history, women's history, Jurassic coast, Dorset, Lyme Regis • women in history, women's history, Jurassic coast, Dorset, Lyme Regis, Ammonite, mary anning, kate winslet, Saoirse Ronan, Charlotte Murchison, Elizabeth Philpot, Roderick Murchison, fossil lady, fossil woman, ammonite film, ammonite movie, amonite, amonite film, amonite movie, fossil films • women in science • women scientist • Women's history
• ISBN-10: 0-7524-9569-0 / 0752495690
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7524-9569-9 / 9780752495699